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Jem Cohen Movies

Director

Best Known

At Close Range

Assistant Property Master

Matewan

Assistant Property Master

Museum Hours

Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer

Instrument

Director, Director of Photography, Editor

Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Editor

Chain

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography

All Movies

62 movies

Directed 60

TBA

Crossing Paths with Luce Vigo

Ballad of Philip Guston

20 Little Films

Le bled (Buildings in a Field)

Or Nothing (The Double)

Spirit (Smells Like Teen Spirit)

Gravity Hill Newsreels-Bella ciao

A Tale of Two Cities (Viennale Trailer 2007)

Long for the City Patti Smith in New York

Black Hole Radio

Director, Editor, Sound Editor

The Film That Buys the Cinema

2025

Robert and June (and All the Time in the World)

2024

Little, Big, and Far

Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound

Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC)

2019

Makeshift (for Mekas)

Director, Cinematography, Editor

2018

Documentary, Music

2017

Birth of a Nation

World Without End (No Reported Incidents)

2016

2015

Director, Producer, Sound Designer, Cinematography, Editor

We Have an Anchor

2013

Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer

Helianthus Corner Blues

2011

Gravity Hill Newsreels Occupy Wall Street

2010

Anne Truitt Working

2009

Chinatown Film Project

Night Scene New York

2008

The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin

Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematography

Half The Battle

2006

Building a Broken Mousetrap

Blessed are the Dreams of Men

2005

NYC Weights and Measures

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography

2003

R.E.M.: In View 1988-2003 (The Best of R.E.M.)

2002

The Foxx and Little Vic

2001

Nice Evening, Transmission Down

Sonic Cinema: Sparklehorse

2000

Documentary, Music

1999

Director, Director of Photography, Editor

Documentary, Music

Blood Orange Sky

1997

Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

Director, Producer, Camera Operator, Editor

Documentary, Music

1996

Lost Book Found

1994

Buried in Light

1991

R.E.M.: This Film Is On

Sketches for Late City Final

1989

Just Hold Still

4:44 (from her house home)

Director · as Narrator

1987

This Is a History of New York

Other 2

1987

Assistant Property Master

1986

Assistant Property Master

Drama, Thriller, Crime