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Lost Book Found

Lost Book Found • 36m

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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    Get to know Jem Cohen, the unclassifiable independent filmmaker whose work explores art, music, and the cities that shape our lives. In the following interview, Cohen describes how he moves between different formats (Super 8, 16 mm, digital) and modes of filmmaking (documentary, collage, street p...

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