At Close Range

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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Matewan

Matewan

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...

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Museum Hours

Museum Hours

A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.

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World Without End (No Reported Incidents)

World 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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Chain

Chain

In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and...

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Instrument

Instrument

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...

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Le bled (Buildings in a Field)

Le 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...

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The Film That Buys the Cinema

The 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.

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Little, Big, and Far

Little, 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...

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Chinatown Film Project

Chinatown 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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Counting

Counting

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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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

The official trailer of Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2007.

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Ballad of Philip Guston

Ballad of Philip Guston

Benjamin Smoke

Benjamin Smoke

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke...

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Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

Lucky 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...

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Blessed Are the Dreams of Men

Blessed Are the Dreams of Men

Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape

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Birth of a Nation

Birth 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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Amber City

Amber City

A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...

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This Climate

This Climate

The stock exchange, the sky, customers, and pedestrians. All are observed at a distance, with care, in the newest work by Jem Cohen.

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NYC Weights and Measures

NYC 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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