Jem Cohen Films

The new feature will have screen at TIFF as follows:

Press & Industry 1:  Saturday the 8th  Scotiabank 5, 10:30 AM
Public 1:  Sunday the 9th, 4:30PM  Cinema 3 (TIFF Bell Lightbox)
Public 2:  Tuesday the 11th, 6:00 PM  Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 9
Press & Industry 2:  Weds. the 12th, 1:30 PM.    Scotiabank 6
Public 3:  Friday the 14th, 8:45 pm    Cineplex Odeon Yonge & Dundas 10

see http://www.museumhoursfilm.com for more info

Jem's new film, MUSEUM HOURS, will premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in the Concorso Internazionale.

museumhoursfilm.com will be live very soon with more info.

Other European festivals and North American premiere to be announced shortly.

Screenings as follows - Press Screening: August 7, at 6.00 pm, Kursaal
First Public Screening: August 8, at 4.15 pm, Auditorium Fevi
Repetition 1: August 9, at 9.00 am, Auditorium Fevi
Repetition 2: August 10, at 6.30 pm, PalaVideo

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).

http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/cohen/

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/

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

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

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.

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!