Jem CohenFilmography

Occupation:
Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer, Sound/Sound Designer, Screenwriter

  • Evening’s Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

    Crew: Director

    2009

  • Jem Cohen: Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Thierry Amar, Eric Craven, Efrim Menuck, Jessica Moss, David Payant

    Synopsis: This avant garde release documents an unusual performance staged and mounted at the 2007 Vienna International Film Festival. As part of that event, organizers invited the iconoclastic filmmaker Jem Cohen to create an evening of film with live musical accompaniment. To fulfill this request, Cohen Read More

    2008

  • Smells Like Teen Spirit

    Crew: Director, Producer

    2007

  • Building a Broken Mousetrap

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer

    Actors: EX

    Synopsis: The Ex are an anarchist musical ensemble from the Netherlands who started out as a ragged punk rock band in 1979. However, over the course of more than a quarter-century, the Ex evolved into a group that still embraced the rabble-rousing political principles of punk, but took in a broad musical Read More

    2006

  • NYC Weights and Measures

    Crew: Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Director

    Synopsis: Instrument and Benjamin Smoke director Jem Cohen wander the streets of New York City with a spring-wound 16mm Bolex camera to explore the varied moods of the massive metropolis in a film that features dream-like footage of Brooklyn and Manhattan as well as shots of the ticker tape parade thrown Read More

    2006

  • Sonic Youth: "Do You Believe in Rapture?"

    Crew: Cinematographer

    Actors: Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley

    2006

  • Blessed are the Dreams of Men

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor

    Synopsis: Noted experimental/documentary filmmaker Jem Cohen directed this impressionistic short subject. Blessed Are The Dreams Of Men blends images of people drifting into sleep during a long train ride with an ominous musical score from Andy Moor, suggesting a dangerous voyage into unknown territories. Read More

    2006

  • Chain

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Miho Nikaido, Mira Billotte

    Synopsis: The man-made landscape of the post-millennium world is seen through two very different sets of eyes in this experimental feature from filmmaker Jem Cohen. Tamiko (Miho Nikaido) is a woman in her early thirties who works for a Japanese steel-manufacturing firm. Tamiko is involved in a major Read More

    9/14/05

  • Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

    Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto

    Synopsis: Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his Read More

    2005

  • Benjamin Smoke

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

    Synopsis: Noted documentary filmmaker Jem Cohen (along with Peter Sillen) directs this look at Benjamin, a Southern, gay, HIV positive, drug-addicted drag queen who led the blues-punk band "Smoke." Born Robert Dickerson in 1960, Benjamin played punk in Atlanta's grungy Cabbagetown section before fronting Read More

    7/21/00

  • Instrument: Ten Years with the Band Fugazi

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Sound/Sound Designer

    Synopsis: Fugazi was arguably the most important and influential underground rock band of the 1990s. While their fierce indie punk ideals dictated that they deliberately stay under the mass media radar (the group declined to do interviews with the mainstream press and requested that critics buy their albums Read More

    1999

  • Amber City

    Crew: Director

    1999

  • Just Hold Still

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This collection of short films from Cohen include Never Change and Love Teller. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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