Directed by Jem Cohen • 1997 • United States
Starring Elliott Smith
This intimate portrait of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith features him performing three songs.
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Lost Book Found
Directed by Jem Cohen • 1996 • United States
Inspired by Walter Benjamin and director Jem Cohen’s time working as a pushcart vendor in downtown Manhattan, LOST BOOK FOUND compiles five years worth of Super 8 and 16 mm footage into a multilayered New York city symphony.
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Anne Truitt, Working
Directed by Jem Cohen • 2009 • United States
Starring Anne TruittJem Cohen’s portrait of sculptor Anne Truitt features an interview with the artist and footage shot in and around her studios at the Yaddo artist colony and in Washington D. C. Rather than an attempt to depict the art itself, whic...
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The Passage Clock (for Walter Benjamin)
Directed by Jem Cohen • 2008 • United States
Jem Cohen’s homage to Walter Benjamin and other expat artists blends narration by Patti Smith with footage of Paris’s Bibliothèque nationale, where Benjamin found refuge from fascism in a sanctuary of books.
