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Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on November 15 and 16, 2011. Newsreel captures police raid on the park and its aftermath.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

 

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on November 2, 2011.  Newsreel captures Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans march and rally nad General Assembly guest speaker.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Guy Picciotto

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 6
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 7
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 8
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 9
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 10

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park / Libery Square on October 24, 2011.  Newsreel captures a large General Assembly meeting and smaller working groups meeting in public atrium.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Guy Picciotto

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series One
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, Series Two

Five short impressions of Occupy Wall Street, shot in New York during the Fall of 2011. 

Available for Exhibition, with Series Two.  Artist can consult on installation specifications.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4

Impressions of Occupy Wall Street’s Liberty Square at night, shot in October of 2011.  Includes a General Assembly meeting about purchasing a new wi-fi tower for the encampment, and a first winter storm.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest home base at Zuccotti Park in the rain on October 19, 2011.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Joe Hunter, Guy Picciotto, Quotes from Eric Cantor, Herman Cain
Presented by DOC NYC and IFC Center. 

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series One.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest at Zuccotti Park in New York City in late 2011.

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Joe Hunter, Guy Picciotto
Presented by DOC NYC and IFC Center. 

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series One.

Jem Cohen, Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest at Times Square during Global Day of Action, October 15, 2011.   

Director, Camera, Edit: Jem Cohen, Soundtrack music:  Joe Hunter, Guy Picciotto
Presented by DOC NYC and IFC Center. 

This title is also available on Gravity Hill Newsreels: Coccupy Wall Street, Series One.

Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Jem Cohen
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 1
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 2
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 3
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 4
Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street, No. 5

Newsreel footage of Occupy Wall Street protest during Global Day of Action, October 15, 2011.   An affinity group meets at the New York Public Library and marches to main demonstration at Times Square.

Real Birds, Jem Cohen
Jem Cohen
Real Birds

The scene: the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn.

The players: wind, a flooded road, passersby, and birds...

The time: shortly before the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

 

Opus Luminis et Hominis, Jem Cohen
Jem Cohen
Opus Luminis et Hominis (Works of Light and Man)
Blood Orange Sky
Amber City
Buried in Light (Central and Eastern Europe in Passing)

A commissioned portait of Pamplona, a small city in the North of Spain, shot and edited there in under 2 weeks. The film is a humble set of observations of place, people, atmospheres, and local rituals. (It is also a tribute to the art of film projection). As there is a large presence in the town of the conservative religious order, Opus Dei, which translates to 'Work of God,' I chose to name my film, Works of Light and Man.

-- Jem Cohen

Le Bled, Jem Cohen
Jem Cohen
Le Bled (Buildings in a Field)

A collaboration with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the airport to the city center, we found ourselves amazed by the landscape outside of the car windows; a massive construction project under way in all directions. While not in itself unusual, we were by struck dumb by the epic scale and seemingly incomprehensible plan of the development and were drawn to return together to this puzzling zone.

-- Jem Cohen

Macho Shogun
Reed Anderson, Daniel Davidson
Macho Shogun

¡Macho Shogun! was created by Reed Anderson and Daniel Davidson over a single weekend some time in 2000.  It's your basic monster-robot / destroy-city kind of video that we wanted to make when we were kids but never did.

This title is only available on Suitable Video, Volume 1.

O'Malley's Head #2
Charles Irvin
O'Malley's Head #2

In 1998 I made a sculpture of a decapitated head. I featured it in a photo and video. I thought of the head as a character whose adventures would be documented. The name O’Malley was inspired by Chicago’s Irish heritage (I was living in Chicago then). O’Malley’s Head Part 1 was a photo of the head placed on top of the garbage cans in the alley behind my apartment building. I lived right by an exit ramp from the Kennedy Expressway, one of the last before you reached downtown from O’Hare Airport. Sometimes people would exit there and dump things.

Manhole 452
Jeanne C. Finley, John Muse
Manhole 452

Despite assurances from local municipalities, a fact of life is that Manholes blow sky high more frequently than most people realize. Manhole 452 directs the viewer’s attention to the shapes, sizes and patterns of manhole covers on Geary Street in San Francisco, and then plunges deep below into the manholes themselves to explore the hidden threat that lies below.

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