May Workshop with Little Valley School
On 3 Sundays in May I'll be doing an ONLINE, participatory workshop via Little Valley School. Info here. It's open to participants from anywhere. I'll focus to some degree on my work as a filmmaker, but this is open to all disciplines and is more broadly about generating productive habits and spirited approaches to non-commercial art-making of any sort.
Little, Big, and Far opens in theaters! IFC NYC 7/12-7/17
LITTLE, BIG, and FAR, will play in NYC
at the IFC Center,
FRIDAY July 11 - through THURS. July 17
Here's the trailer. Tickets here. (Q&As with Sierra Pettengill, Jane Schoenbrun, Scott Macaulay)
Other cities, and more info from the distributor, Grasshopper Film, here
"Achingly beautiful… [a] film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars… Feels spiritually nourishing in a way few films can manage.”
NEW YORK TIMES - Critic's Pick
“profoundly beautiful and mesmerizing”
REVERSE SHOT
“wondrous, expansive. A reminder to look up and consider the universe.”
ROGEREBERT.COM
“… places private struggles, politics and the mysteries of the universe on equal footing. ... It is democratic cinema, equally dedicated to physicists and street-corner astronomers. The sky still belongs to all of us..."
SIGHT AND SOUND
"Little, Big, and Far" at National Gallery of Art
"Little, Big, and Far" screening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Jem Cohen, in person.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
National Gallery of Art
East Building Auditorium
Presented in partnership with DC’s Environmental Film Festival 2025.
"OTHER FORESTS" - NEW FILM FOR XYLOURIS WHITE
New film made to accompany Xylouris White album "The Forest in Me"
(incorporates 3 songs - Night Club, Forest in Me, Missing Heart)
2023, HD, 6 min.
TWO FILMS RELEASED FOR SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch / Carter Logan)
JOHN ASHBERY TAKES A WALK (Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg)
https://vimeo.com/gravityhill/ashbery2
Berlin 1987
Jem's films available on Vimeo on Demand
Jem has been adding films to a Vimeo on Demand page where titles can be "rented" for personal streaming. Please do not use for public/classroom screenings. (For those, see the Distribution link.)
Especially in light of job loss related to the pandemic, it is increasingly important to support artists via renting and buying their work online...
Thank you.
New film collaboration with Jessica Moss: "Opened Endings"
I am pleased to have worked with violinist and old friend, Jessica Moss, on a film for the release of her new track, "Opened Endings."
It's part of Constellation Records Corona Borealis series; just scroll down to 'Jessica Moss' to watch.
New short re Jonas Mekas for Criterion, New Xylouris White film
A new short film, Makeshift (for Mekas) is up on the Criterion Channel. It was commissioned as part of their Mekas series/homage.
A new video, Tree Song for Xylouris White (7:25, 2019, HD) on Drag City. Shot in the desert, sun went down.
New short on Paris Review website
A short film I made in conjunction with the release of Sam Stephenson's wonderful book, Gene Smith's Sink (regarding the photographer W. Eugene Smith) is now up on the Paris Review website.