Counting

Synopsis

Jem Cohen’s newest film is a personal, essayistic documentary in 15 chapters. The director composes images, sound and music with remarkable intensity, combining them into a hypnotic foray through the metropolises of our world: New York, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Porto and a city intended to remain unknown. Time passes and stands still at the same time. It is life itself that the director shows us. Counting is like taking a Sunday walk through spatial and temporal interstices, as touching as it is magical.

Director Biography

Jem Cohen, born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1962. In 1984, he graduated with a degree in Film and Photography. He lives in New York. Cohen’s films are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Whitney Museum. Jem Cohen has collaborated with the author Luc Sante and with numerous musicians and bands, including Fugazi, Patti Smith, Terry Riley, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Gil Shaham/Orpheus Orchestra, R.E.M., Vic Chesnutt and The Ex.