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'''Jem Alan Cohen''' (born
He also makes multichannel installations and still photographs and had a photography show at Robert Miller Gallery in 2009.
He is the recipient of the [[Independent Spirit Awards|Independent Spirit Award]] for feature filmmaking, and has received grants from the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim]], [[Creative Capital]], [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]] and [[Alpert
Cohen's films have been broadcast internationally, and are in held the collections of the [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Whitney Museum]], the [[National Gallery of Art]], and the [[ACMI (museum)|ACMI]] in Melbourne.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?COHENJ|title=Opus Luminis et Hominis...|publisher=Vdb.org|access-date=2012-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117104033/http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?COHENJ|archive-date=2008-11-17|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Early life==
Cohen was born in [[Kabul]], [[Afghanistan]] where his father was working for Columbia University, Teachers College and the [[United States Agency for International Development]] (U.S.A.I.D.).<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=In focus: Jem Cohen on Museum Hours|url=
==Career==
Cohen found the mainstream Hollywood film industry incompatible with his sociopolitical and artistic views. By applying the [[do it yourself|D.I.Y.]] ethos of Punk Rock to his film-making approach, he crafted a distinct style in his films through various small gauge formats of Super 8, sixteen-millimetre, and videotape. In an interview with web-site ''The Lamp'', Cohen said, "...it's very inspiring to me, to see people kind of take something outside of the industry, outside of the music industry, and it gave me something of a template to work in film outside of the film industry. And there are certainly strains of punk that are activist and that are kind of oppositional in nature to the dominant mainstream culture... that's very inspiring to me..."{{cn|date=January 2024}}
Cohen's longer works include his feature film, ''[[Museum Hours]]'', ''[[Chain (film)|Chain]]'', and the experimental [[Documentary film|documentary]], ''[[Instrument (film)|Instrument]]'', a portrait of the [[Washington, D.C.|D.C.]] [[punk rock|punk]] band [[
Cohen was a resident at [[Eyebeam (organization)|Eyebeam]] in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://eyebeam.org/people/jem-cohen|title = Jem Cohen {{!}} eyebeam.org|access-date = 28 January 2016|website = Eyebeam}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future|url = http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/232/project:193|website = creative-capital.org|access-date = 2016-01-28}}</ref>
[[File:unseen unsaid (Jem Cohen, 2015).webm|thumb|thumbtime=5|''unseen unsaid'', a 2015 film shot along [[Essex Road]] in London]]
In 2005, Cohen curated the four-day FUSEBOX Festival in [[Ghent]], [[Belgium]]. A celebratory gathering "at the crossroads of film, music, and activism," participants included [[Guy Picciotto]] of Fugazi, [[Patti Smith]] and [[Tom Verlaine]], [[The Evens]], and a side project of Montreal's [[Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra|Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band]], called Thee Silver Mountain Elegies Play War Radio, which formed for the occasion.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
==Filmography==
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* ''We Have an Anchor'' (2015)
* ''Counting'' (2015)
* ''On Essex Road'' (2016)
* ''Bury Me Not'' (2016)
* ''World Without End (No Reported Incidents)'' (2016)
* ''This Climate'' (2017)
* ''Birth Of A Nation'' (2017)
* ''Makeshift (For Mekas)'' (2019)
* ''Or Nothing (The Double)'' (2022)
* ''Ballad Of Philip Guston'' (2023)
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==External links==
* {{Official website|www.jemcohenfilms.com}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0169486|name=Jem Cohen}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061222134445/http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?COHENJ Jem Cohen] in the [[Video Data Bank]]
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