Jem Cohen [ca]

Jem Cohen is a New York-based film- and videomaker. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Cohen is often shooting in hundreds of locations with little or no additional crew. He collects street footage, portraits, and sounds. The projects built from these archives defy easy categorization, thriving on the collision between documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. Some of the projects are personal/political city portraits made on travels around the globe. Many center around daily life and ephemeral moments: things seen out of the corner of the eye and pulled into the center.