A new show of projected images with live music, commissioned by EMPAC, the experimental media and performing arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, will premier this friday. The show consists of footage shot over the past ten years in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, with texts and live music…
Musicians are Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), T.Griffin (Quavers), Jim White (Dirty Three), Jessica Moss (Silver Mt. Zion), and Sophie Trudeau and Efrim Menuck. (SMZ and Godspeed You! Black Emperor).
The New York Times is running a piece on Jem’s polaroid photographs, which includes an embedded short film, NIGHT SCENE NEW YORK. It is online as of Saturday, March 10, with a print version to run in the Metropolitan section on Sunday, March 11.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/the-lonesome-ghosts-of-a-citys-past/
Sunday, February 19, 2012
A new installation of Cohen’s 12 newsreels about Occupy Wall Street will premiere in Toronto on Weds. 22 in the Bell Lightbox atrium. Running from Feb. 22nd-March 23rd, the installation is presented in conjunction with the Reel Artists Film Festival.
Jem has made 4 new short films observing Occupy Wall Street in New York, with a 5th on the way.
The films are playing as shorts, one per week, before feature films at the IFC Center theater, 6th Ave. at West 3rd st.
Online, they can be seen at:
www.vimeo.com/ifccenter
Saturday, October 29, 2011
The short film, LITTLE FLAGS, continues its exhibition in the remarkable September 11 show at MoMA PS1 curated by Peter Eleey. It runs to Jan. 9, 2012.
NYC WEIGHTS and MEASURES will be installed at the Jewish Museum from Nov.4, 2011 to March 25, 2012
Monday, February 28, 2011
The Fugazi documentary, INSTRUMENT, and THIS IS A HISTORY OF NEW YORK at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1158
I will do a Q & A with Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto (only) on Friday, March 4 after the 7 pm screening of INSTRUMENT. (This is the museum’s free night, so film tickets are also free from 4pm on; however, the museum will have long lines!)
INSTRUMENT screens again on March 5 at 4pm
History of New York is one of my very first films and very rarely shown. It’s a rather primitive, 23 minute, Super 8 film (shown on video). Click the above link for details.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. will present:
Jem Cohen: Curious Visions
with a screening of short films and works-in-progress on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 at 2:30
(Filmmaker present)
and a screening of the Fugazi documentary INSTRUMENT on Sunday, Feb. 27th at 4:30
(Ian MacKaye present)
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/JemCohen.shtm
Screenings are in the East Building Concourse Auditorium, and they are free, 1st come, 1st served!
Jem made background films for Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The band is currently on tour, with Karl Lemieux running the 4-projector 16mm projection of films and loops (made by Karl, Jem, and Efrim Menuck). Some of the films are old ones used in their tours from 2000-2003, but some are new. Go to
cstrecords.com for dates.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A 250 page book (in English and Spanish) with an additional 30 page gallery of color polaroid images has been released by the Punto de Vista documentary festival:
“Signal Fires. El cine de Jem Cohen/The Cinema of Jem Cohen” is available online, by phone, or at the Navarra List of Titles shop:
• By phone (Spain): (+34) 848 427 121
• Online: www.cfnavarra.es/publicaciones. List of Titles of the Government of Navarra website, Punto de Vista Collection.
(Click above link, then click on word ‘Colecciones’, then click ‘Punto de Vista’ on left hand side list, then click ‘Signal Fires’ on the bottom).
MoMA will screen the feature film, CHAIN (2004, 99 min. w. Miho Nikaido and Mira Billotte) as part of the Creative Capital Film Series.
MAY 15 at 4pm (with filmmaker Q & A) and MAY 27 at 7pm (filmmaker present).