Monday, October 1st at 1.30pm
Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue, 1st Floor
THE CINEMATIC CITIES OF JEM COHEN
Jem Cohen films the landscapes of cities. Inspired by Vigo and Vertov, he has made over 50 films of urban places imbued by history and the imagined future. At this year’s Festival del Film Locarno he received the Art Cinema Award for his new feature Museum Hours. Cohen’s work crosses genres — documentary, music performance, experimental, narrative. His cinema of the street and the everyday, shot often in flanneur style with a 16mm Bolex, has appeared at the Berlin Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Viennale, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the London Film Festival and the Festival Dei Popoli in Florence. It has been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance channel, BBC and ZDF/ARTE. As an activist, Cohen led the successful overturning of proposed restrictions on street photography in New York.
At Kellen Auditorium with a post-screening Q and A with the filmmaker:
Amber City (1999)
Long for the City (2008)
Night Scene New York (2009)
Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo (2010)
Watch Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures on PBS. See more from MetroFocus.