Jem Cohen

Roles: Director

Jem Cohen’s feature-length films include “Instrument” (Fugazi), “Museum Hours,” “Counting,” and “Benjamin Smoke.” Shorts include “Lost Book Found,” “Anne Truitt Working,” and “Ballad of Philip Guston.” His work is in the collections of New York’s MoMA, Whitney, and Jewish Museum, and D.C.’s Natl. Gallery of Art. We Have an Anchor, a multi-media portrait of Cape Breton with live music, was shown at BAM’s Next Wave and London’s Barbican. Cohen has worked extensively with musicians including Fugazi, Patti Smith, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, R.E.M., Terry Riley, Xylouris White, and Vic Chesnutt, as well as writer Lucy Sante.

2025 Program(s):
Little, Big, and Far