We are very happy to announce that The Cinema Guild will be the U.S. distributor for

MUSEUM HOURS.

http://www.cinemaguild.com/    

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

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/

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

Show up through April 18, 2009, at the Robert Miller Gallery, 524 West 26th st., NYC.NEW YORK, STILL & MOVING consists of photographs and composite images which originated as Polaroids. It also includes short films. https://www.robertmillergallery.com/artists/all_artists/cohen/cohen.html

There will be a reception on March 28th, 6-8 for Jem and Patti Smith, whose show, VEIL, runs concurrently in the gallery.March 26 will bring the Mexico city premiere of MANIFESTO D.F., an evening of Mexican city portrait films shot on 16mm, with live soundtracks by T. Griffin, Guy Picciotto, Andy Moor, DJ Rupture, and Sonido Changorama. The event is part of the 25th Festival de Mexico en el Centro Historico, which is also presenting an extensive series of Jem's films through Cinema Global. https://festival.org.mx/programa/espectaculo/98

LONG FOR THE CITY  (9 minutes) made in collaboration with Patti Smith in 2008, will show at the Museum of Modern Art in a program of recent works shot on Super 8 (it's part of their Documentary Fortnight series).

Thursday, February 12, 2009, 8:00 p.m.,
Theater 1, T1
(New York premiere. Discussion with filmmakers)

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 6:00 p.m.,
Theater 2, T2

Jem will present a program of projected films for live music, EVENING'S CIVIL TWILIGHT IN EMPIRES OF TIN, at the Viennale

(Vienna Film Festival) on Nov.1st. He will be joined for the project by Vic Chesnutt, members of Silver Mt. Zion, Guy Picciotto, T.Griffin and Catherine McRae.

A dvd of this show is currently in the works.

The new film commissioned for Patti Smith's cover version of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" now online.