Jem Cohen is a filmmaker and photographer based in New York. His feature films include Museum Hours, Counting, Benjamin Smoke, Instrument and the soon to be completed Little, Big, and Far. Among his short films are Lost Book Found, Anne Truitt, Working and Ballad of Philip Guston. Cohen’s films are in the collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Jewish Museum, and Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art. We Have an Anchor, a multi-media portrait of Cape Breton with live music, was shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and London’s Barbican. Cohen has worked extensively with musicians including Fugazi, Patti Smith, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, R.E.M., Terry Riley, Xylouris White, and Vic Chesnutt, as well as writer Lucy Sante.