Kore doğumlu bir adam kendisini, mimar babasının komada bulunduğu Indiana’daki Columbus’ta sıkışıp kalmış şekilde bulur. Adam, kendi hayallerini sürdürmek yerine, iyileşmekte olan bir bağımlı annesiyle Columbus’ta kalmak isteyen genç bir kadınla tanışır.

Columbus

An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in St. Petersburg, an abandoned video shop in Cairo and cats everywhere you look.

Counting

A portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a town along England's Thames estuary, that includes everyday streets, people, birds, water, mud and sky.

World Without End (No Reported Incidents)

An observational portrait of London’s Essex Street, and the inhabitants who work the shops and throng the pavement there (Julie Murray).

On Essex Road

In "Birth of a Nation", Jem Cohen takes his camera to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and to the next day’s protests.

Birth of a Nation

"Like a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, the film makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York City's many moods, from loud and relentless to grave and dreamy."

NYC Weights and Measures

Jem Cohen's memory-tribute to Jonas Mekas displaces its first-person narration from voice-over to on-screen text. Diaristic New York street imagery from 2015 mingles with the red roses of Lithuania and a 'makeshift memorial' to this beloved figure of the avant-garde.

Makeshift (for Mekas)

An unorthodox essay film on the renowned but controversial painter, Philip Guston. Ballad interweaves Guston's biography, influences, and philosophical approach to art with Cohen's deeply personal engagement with the man and his work.

Ballad of Philip Guston

Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer, is at a crossroads in life and work. After a conference in Greece, he decides not to return home and heads for a small island in hopes of finding a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars.