Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship, hidden secrets, and desires. Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered composition. Beautiful shades of grey, silver, black and blue echo the water, reminiscent of early photography and silverprints. Cohen says, "The piece was constructed primarily from footage I'd shot of skinnydippers at swimming holes in Georgia and rural Pennsylvania. It's about water and memory and stories just submerged. It is also, in part, a response to thinking about censorship. I would say that Drink Deep is both unabashedly and deceptively romantic. Surface, flow, and undertow. What looks like paradise is always paradise lost." Music composed by Stephen Vitiello and performed with Gabriel Cohen and Mary Wooten.
Also available on:
Anthology: Jem Cohen: Early Works
|
Biography of Jem Cohen Titles by Jem Cohen:
Amber City 
Anne Truitt, Working
Black Hole Radio
Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
Blood Orange Sky
Building A Broken Mousetrap
Buried in Light (Central and Eastern Europe in Passing)
Chain
Drink Deep
Half the Battle
Instrument
Just Hold Still
Little Flags
Long for the City
Lost Book Found
Lucky Three
Music Works
Night Scene New York
NYC Weights and Measures
One Bright Day
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
Spirit
This is a History of New York
Work by Jem Cohen also appears on:
Anthology: Jem Cohen: Early Works
|
