June Leaf

June Leaf

An intimate glimpse of June Leaf in her studio at the Bleecker Street home she shared with her husband Robert Frank. June, who worked fiercely...

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Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC)

Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC)

In films shot on 16mm and Super 8 over many years, now edited digitally, I reflect on my many visits to the homes of Robert and June in a...

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Light Years

Light Years

The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).

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Buried in Light

Buried in Light

A meditation on history, memory, and change in Central and Eastern Europe, Buried in Light is a non-narrative journey, a cinematic collage. Cohen’s...

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This Is a History of New York

This Is a History of New York

A history of New York City from Prehistoric times through the Space Age, composed entirely from documentary street footage.

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On Essex Road

On Essex Road

An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).

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Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)

Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)

The film is a domestic portrait of Patti and her son, Jackson. William Blake was invited in the form of a plaster cast of his death mask. Kurt...

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Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky

Roscoe Holcomb from Daisy, Kentucky

Roscoe Holcomb was one of America’s greatest banjo players, a musician whose haunting vocal intonations, Old Regular Baptist in tradition, gave Bob...

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free

free

Commissioned by Renew Media to celebrate 20th Anniversary of Media Arts Fellowships

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We Have an Anchor

We Have an Anchor

An excerpt from a portrait of Cape Breton shot over 10 years. Last presented in New York as a live show in BAM’s 2013 Next Wave series, it’s now...

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Museum

Museum

Unreleased silent Super 8 film, shot in the mid 1990s; an early precursor to Museum Hours.

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Nightswimming

Nightswimming

An erotic music video and short film about skinny-dipping.

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Helianthus Corner Blues

Helianthus Corner Blues

A sudden rainstorm, 6th Avenue at West Fourth, NYC. That's all.

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Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street

Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street

Cohen, who witnessed the New York occupation from day one, borrowed a digital camera and started gathering footage in subsequent weeks. Initially...

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Blood Orange Sky

Blood Orange Sky

A portrait of Catania, Sicily. Includes the ocean at 5 a.m., the fish market, the distributor of pornographic films, the woodworker, the elephant...

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