Jem Cohen Films http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp Information About Jem Cohen and Gravity Hill Films Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:12:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 GRAVITY HILL NEWSREELS INSTALLATION OPENING AT TIFF LIGHTBOX http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2012/02/19/gravity-hill-newsreels-installation-opening-at-tiff-lightbox/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2012/02/19/gravity-hill-newsreels-installation-opening-at-tiff-lightbox/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:40:29 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=218 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.

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2012/02/19/gravity-hill-newsreels-installation-opening-at-tiff-lightbox/feed/ 0 New ‘Newsreels’ about Occupy Wall Street http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/10/31/5-new-newsreels-about-occupy-wall-street/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/10/31/5-new-newsreels-about-occupy-wall-street/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:19:42 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=199 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


]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/10/31/5-new-newsreels-about-occupy-wall-street/feed/ 0 LITTLE FLAGS in 9/11 Show at PS1, NYC WEIGHTS installed at Jewish Museum http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/10/29/little-flags-in-911-show-at-ps1-nyc-weights-installed-at-jewish-museum/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/10/29/little-flags-in-911-show-at-ps1-nyc-weights-installed-at-jewish-museum/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:29:15 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=181 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

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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.

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/02/28/169/feed/ 0 FEB. SCREENINGS AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASH. D.C. http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/02/10/feb-screenings-at-national-gallery-of-art-wash-d-c/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/02/10/feb-screenings-at-national-gallery-of-art-wash-d-c/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:12:46 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=161 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!

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/02/10/feb-screenings-at-national-gallery-of-art-wash-d-c/feed/ 0 Films for Godspeed You! Black Emperor http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/01/30/films-for-godspeed-you-black-emperor/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/01/30/films-for-godspeed-you-black-emperor/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:15:31 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=153 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.

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2011/01/30/films-for-godspeed-you-black-emperor/feed/ 0 ‘Signal Fires: The Cinema of Jem Cohen’ now available http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/08/26/signal-fires-the-cinema-of-jem-cohen-now-available/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/08/26/signal-fires-the-cinema-of-jem-cohen-now-available/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:52:21 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=110 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).

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/08/26/signal-fires-the-cinema-of-jem-cohen-now-available/feed/ 0 CHAIN at Museum of Modern Art, MAY 2010 http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/05/14/chain-at-museum-of-modern-art-may-2010/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/05/14/chain-at-museum-of-modern-art-may-2010/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 13:28:41 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=97 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).

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/05/14/chain-at-museum-of-modern-art-may-2010/feed/ 0 RETROSPECTIVES and MASTER CLASSES IN SPAIN http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/01/26/retrospectives-and-master-classes-in-spain/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/01/26/retrospectives-and-master-classes-in-spain/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:07:23 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/?p=80 Jem will have a (nearly) complete retrospective at the Punto de Vista Documentary Festival in Pamplona, Spain, Feb. 5th – 13th. The retrospective consists of 7 programs and will be accompanied by the publication of a new, bilingual book on Cohen’s work, Signal Fires.
http://www.navarra.es/home_en/Temas/Turismo+ocio+y+cultura/Actividades+culturales/Espectaculos/PuntodeVista/default.htm

The retrospective will then travel to Galicia (CGAI) and Valencia (IVAC/LA FILMOTECA) – details to follow.
Cohen’s work will also be screening weekly in February at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. www.lacasaencendida.es/

]]> http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2010/01/26/retrospectives-and-master-classes-in-spain/feed/ 0 ANNE TRUITT, WORKING at Hirshhorn Museum, Wash., D.C. http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2009/10/18/anne-truitt-working-at-hirshhorn-museum-in-washington-dc/ http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2009/10/18/anne-truitt-working-at-hirshhorn-museum-in-washington-dc/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:36:02 +0000 Jem Cohen http://jemcohenfilms.com/wp/2009/10/18/anne-truitt-working-at-hirshhorn-museum-in-washington-dc/ Jem’s short film portrait of artist, Anne Truitt; on exhibition with her major survey, now to Jan. 3, 2010

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