At Close Range
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a...
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Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...
See moreMuseum Hours
A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.
See moreWorld Without End (No Reported Incidents)
A portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a town along England's Thames estuary, that includes everyday streets, people, birds, water, mud and sky.
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In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and...
See moreInstrument
The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their...
See moreLe bled (Buildings in a Field)
A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the...
See moreThe Film That Buys the Cinema
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
See moreLittle, Big, and Far
Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using...
See moreChinatown Film Project
Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a...
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An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in...
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The official trailer of Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2007.
See moreBallad of Philip Guston
Benjamin Smoke
Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke...
See moreLucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
Described as "a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two," singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays three...
See moreBlessed Are the Dreams of Men
Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape
See moreBirth of a Nation
In "Birth of a Nation", Jem Cohen takes his camera to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and to the next day’s protests.
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A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...
See moreThis Climate
The stock exchange, the sky, customers, and pedestrians. All are observed at a distance, with care, in the newest work by Jem Cohen.
See moreNYC Weights and Measures
"Like a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, the film makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York City's many moods, from loud...
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