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...
See moreRobert 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...
See moreLight Years
The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).
See moreBuried 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...
See moreThis 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.
See moreOn Essex Road
An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).
See moreSpirit (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...
See moreRoscoe 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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Commissioned by Renew Media to celebrate 20th Anniversary of Media Arts Fellowships
See moreWe 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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Unreleased silent Super 8 film, shot in the mid 1990s; an early precursor to Museum Hours.
See moreNightswimming
An erotic music video and short film about skinny-dipping.
See moreHelianthus Corner Blues
A sudden rainstorm, 6th Avenue at West Fourth, NYC. That's all.
See moreGravity 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...
See moreBlood 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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