Jem Cohen Films

MUSEUM HOURS begins U.S. run in NYC on June 28, ’13

Jem Cohen — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:24:01 +0000

Distributor Cinema Guild will begin the U.S. theatrical rollout of Museum Hours in New York at the IFC theater and uptown at the Lincoln Plaza cinema. The run begins on June 28, 2013.

Jem Cohen will be present at various shows.

MUSEUM HOURS – U.S. PREMIERE AT SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST

Jem Cohen — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:02:31 +0000

http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_FS14077

MUSEUM HOURS will screen on Sat. March 9, Sun. March 10, and Sat. March 16

We Have an Anchor at Tiff Bell Lightbox, Dec. 4 & 5, 2012

Jem Cohen — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:35:52 +0000

A show of projected images with live music, presented by TIFF and the Images Festival at TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX DEC. 4 and 5 at 8pm. The multi-projection 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), Sophie Trudeau and Efrim Menuck. (SMZ and Godspeed You! Black Emperor), with guest appearance by Mary Margaret O’Hara.

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2012/2550005636

MUSEUM HOURS PICKED UP BY CINEMA GUILD for U.S. DISTRIBUTION

Jem Cohen — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:24:41 +0000

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

MUSEUM HOURS.

http://www.cinemaguild.com/

MUSEUM HOURS – North American Premiere at TORONTO FILM FEST

Jem Cohen — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:15:53 +0000

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 www.museumhoursfilm.com for more info

FEATURE FILM, MUSEUM HOURS, PREMIERING AT LOCARNO

Jem Cohen — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:45:53 +0000

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

Jem Cohen — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:49:40 +0000

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

Jem Cohen — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:53:09 +0000

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

Jem Cohen — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:40:29 +0000

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.

New ‘Newsreels’ about Occupy Wall Street

Jem Cohen — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:19:42 +0000

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