Mtumiaji:Muddyb/Jem Cohen
Jem Alan Cohen (amezaliwa 1962) ni mshindi wa tuzo-mtengenezaji wa filamu kutoka New York City anayejulikana hasa kwa mtindo wa upekuzi wa taswira na madhari ya mijini, kuchanganya miundo ya vyombo vya habari (16mm, Super 8, video) na ushirikiano wake na wasanii wa muziki.
Maisha ya awali
[hariri | hariri chanzo]Cohen alizaliwa mjini Kabul, Afghanistan ambapo baba'ke alikuwa akifanya kazi ya Uwakilishi wa Habari ya Maendeleo katika shirika la Marekani. Alihitimu katika Chuo Kikuu cha Wesleyan mnamo 1984, akiwa na uzingativu katika uchoraji na upigaji picha. Jem hakwenda shule ya utengenezaji wa filamu.
Kazi - CAREER
[hariri | hariri chanzo]1st paragraph + translation ideas
[hariri | hariri chanzo](Cohen found the mainstream Hollywood film industry incompatible with his sociopolitical and artistic views.)=(Cohen does not work in the mainstream of the film industry.)=(Cohen is an independent artist (underground rock). (By applying the DIY ethos of Punk Rock into his filmmaking approach, he crafted a distinct style in his films through various cheap formats of Super 8mm, 16mm, and video.) =(Cohen uses DIY techniques and loves using cheap formats like Super 8mm, 16mm and video.) In an interview with The Lamp, Cohen said, ("...it's very inspiring to me, to see people kind of take something outside of the industry, outside of the music industry, and it gave me something of a template to work in film outside of the film industry. And there are certainly strains of punk that are activist and that are kind of oppositional in nature to the dominant mainstream culture... that's very inspiring to me...")=(It's very important to me to have people from outside the mainstream of the entertainment industry doing work and and getting good exposure.)
- Dominant mainstream culture=Michael Jackson and U2...Mainstreamm rap=Will Smith and LL Cool J...Outside the mainstream=KRS-One and underground hip-hop; ... Cohen believes in taking artists who are not part ofthe mainstream and working to present their work to the public and to people within the entertainment industry.
Original
[hariri | hariri chanzo]Cohen found the maintream Hollywood film industry incompatible with his sociopolitical and artistic views. By applying the DIY ethos of Punk Rock into his filmmaking approach, he crafted a distinct style in his films through various cheap formats of Super 8mm, 16mm, and video. In an interview with The Lamp, Cohen said, "...it's very inspiring to me, to see people kind of take something outside of the industry, outside of the music industry, and it gave me something of a template to work in film outside of the film industry. And there are certainly strains of punk that are activist and that are kind of oppositional in nature to the dominant mainstream culture... that's very inspiring to me..."
Cohen's longer works include his feature film, CHAIN, and the experimental documentary, Instrument, a portrait of the D.C.-punk band Fugazi that was ten years in the making. Another film that covers a ten year arc, Benjamin Smoke, is about the life of the frontman of the Atlanta, Georgia band Smoke. Other works of note are Lost Book Found, his Walter Benjamin-inspired portrait of New York City, Buried in Light, a series of connected Central and Eastern European city portraits, and his short film about the late Elliott Smith, Lucky Three. In 2002, Cohen made Chain X Three, a precursor to the CHAIN feature film, which was exhibited as a three-channel installation. His concert film of the Dutch band The Ex, Building a Broken Mousetrap, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2006.
In 2005, Cohen curated the four-day FUSEBOX Festival in Ghent, Belgium. A celebratory gathering "at the crossroads of film, music, and activism," participants included Guy Picciotto of Fugazi, Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, The Evens, and a side project of Montreal's Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, called Thee Silver Mountain Elegies Play War Radio, which formed for the occasion.
Other music artists Cohen has collaborated with over the years include Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Vic Chesnutt, Terry Riley, Sparklehorse, R.E.M., T.Griffin, Stephen Vitiello, Miracle Legion, DJ /rupture and Blonde Redhead.
He has also cited that he has previously worked for the film industry as a technician and prop man, some of the directors he has worked under include Alex Cox, John Sayles, and Martin Scorsese.
In addition to his filmmaking, Cohen has taught a workshop titled 'Documentary as a Lyrical Force" at the International Center of Photography. The works of Humphrey Jennings, Helen Levitt, Georges Franju, Santiago Álvarez, and Forugh Farrokhzad, as well as his own, are discussed.
Filmography
[hariri | hariri chanzo]- A Road in Florida (1983)
- Witness (1986)
- This is a History of New York (The Golden Age of Reason) (1987)
- Selected City Films (1989)
- Talk About the Passion (1989) collaboration with R.E.M.
- You're the One Lee (1989) collaboration with Miracle Legion
- Glue Man (1989) collaboration with Fugazi
- Light Years (1989)
- Love Teller (1989)collaboration with Ben Katchor
- Never Change (1988) text by Blake Nelson
- 4:44 (from her house) (1989)
- What does Away Mean? PSA (1989)
- Marks Town (1991)
- Drink Deep (1991)
- Black Hole Radio (1992) single channel version and video installation
- Nightswimming (1993)
- Drift (1993)
- Buried in Light (1993)
- Sun Project (1994)
- Coney Island End of God the Way It Must Be (1996)
- Lost Book Found (1996)
- Lucky Three (1997)
- Amber City (1999)
- Instrument (1999)
- Blood Orange Sky (1999)
- Waterfront Diaries (New York) (2000)
- Nice Evening, Transmission Down (2001)
- Little Flags (2000)
- Benjamin Smoke (2000)
- George Thief (2002)
- The Foxx and Little Vic (2002)
- Cat Power: Live from Fur City (2002)
- Chain X Three (2002)
- Chain (2004)
- NYC Weights and Measures (2005)
- Blessed Are the Dreams of Men (2006)
- Building a Broken Mouse Trap (2006)
- Free (2007)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit (2007)
Trivia
[hariri | hariri chanzo] | Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (April 2009) |
- Cohen organized, and is credited as a producer on the upcoming Vic Chesnutt record, "North Star Deserter." He designed the cover, as he did for the last four Fugazi records.
- Some of Jem's Super 8-footage was used in the Sonic Youth video "Do You Believe in Rapture?"
References
[hariri | hariri chanzo]External links
[hariri | hariri chanzo]- Jem Cohen kwenye Internet Movie Database
- Jem Cohen's website
- Just Hold Still; A Conversation with Jem Cohen
- Open Letter from Jem Cohen (about a 2005 incident where, after filming from a train window, he was questioned and had a film reel confiscated by police due to terrorism concerns)
- Jem Cohen in the Video Data Bank
- Jem Cohen, Lost Book Found
- Interview with Indiewire
- "Free" video
- Benjamin Smoke