FEATURE FILM, MUSEUM HOURS, PREMIERING AT LOCARNO
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
"We Have an Anchor" to premier at EMPAC - Friday, April 27 at 8pm
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).
In the New York Times
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/
GRAVITY HILL NEWSREELS INSTALLATION OPENING AT TIFF LIGHTBOX
New 'Newsreels' about Occupy Wall Street
LITTLE FLAGS in 9/11 Show at PS1, NYC WEIGHTS installed at Jewish Museum
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
2011 SCREENINGS AT MOMA
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.
FEB. SCREENINGS AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASH. D.C.
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!
Films for Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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.