Jem A. Cohen (born 1962, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats (16mm, Super 8, video) and collaborations with music artists. He was born in Afghanistan where his father was working for the U.S. Agency for Information and Development. Cohen's longer works include his feature film, "CHAIN", (Berlin Film Festival premiere, 2004), and the experimental documentary, … Wikipedia
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Jem Cohen's films have been called heart-breaking and trance-inducing, with a fierce political intelligence. alpertawards.org/archive/winner05/filmvideo.html
Coming to the Walker April 27 for a dialogue with musician Vic Chesnutt , Cohen discussed his first narrative feature film, Chain (which screens here on April 26 ) with Dean Otto, assistant film/video curator. blogs.walkerart.org/filmvideo/?p=62
Cohen works in 16 mm, Super 8 and video, building an archive of images over periods of up to ten years. www.calarts.edu/news/pressrelease/2005/cohen.html
Beginning in this same fashion, Chain collates material shot over a ten year period—20-40 hours of it in total—some of which also found its way into a 40-minute three-channel installation work ( Chain x Three , 2000, with music by Godspeed). About halfwa www.cinema-scope.com/cs21/int_charity_cohen.htm
indieWIRE spoke recently to Cohen and Sillen about "Benjamin Smoke's" relation to the Georgia music scene, American rebels, and mainstream celebrity culture. www.indiewire.com/people/int_Cohen_Sillen_000721.html
