Two by Jem Cohen
With an artistic sensibility nurtured on punk rock and shaped by Jean Vigo and Chris Marker, the Kabul-born, East Coast-raised filmmaker Jem Cohen is a true independent whose work, often peripatetic and implicitly diaristic, straddles the cinema and the art gallery. Both of the films in this series—"Museum Hours" and "Counting"—exude his distinctive gritty lyricism and keen sense of worldly wonder.
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Museum Hours
Directed by Jem Cohen | 106 mins | 2012
The collection of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum sparks conversation and fosters a bond between a Canadian visitor (played by beloved singer Mary Margaret O’Hara) and a security guard (Bobby Sommer) in this contemplative, intimate film—a rare fiction fea... -
Counting
Directed by Jem Cohen | 112 mins | 2015
The spirit of Chris Marker—a key artistic touchstone and a former correspondent of Cohen’s—is imbued in this travelog, with its slyly associative assemblage of globe-spanning images and its preponderance of cats. Sometimes veering lyrical, sometimes politic...
