Jem Cohen Films

The Fugazi documentary, INSTRUMENT, and THIS IS A HISTORY OF NEW YORK at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC

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.

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!

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.

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).

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).

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, <em>Signal Fires</em>.

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

Jem's short film portrait of artist, Anne Truitt; on exhibition with her major survey, now to Jan. 3, 2010

September 3 will be the last of Jem's current run of special programs at the IFC Theater. He will present a selection of shorts, excerpts, and excavations, with co-host and frequent collaborator, Guy Picciotto. More info to follow.

Please note, the last 2 IFC movie nites sold out well in advance. Consider buying your ticket ahead.  Thanks.

https://www.ifccenter.com/series/movie-nights-with-jem-cohen/

A new version of Manifiesto D.F., now called Ciudad de Mexico por Azar will be presented on Aug. 20th in Santiago, Chile as part of the SANFIC film festival. Musicians DJ Rupture, Andy Moor, Guy Picciotto, and T. Griffin will be on board, with new narration read by Juan Pablo Bastarrachea. Cohen will also give a workshop and present several evenings of screenings.