Bard Graduate Center is
pleased to present a looped screening of filmmaker Jem Cohen’s Lost
Book Found. The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming
on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary
and narrative into a complex meditation on city life. The piece revolves around
a mysterious notebook filled with obsessive listings of places, objects, and
incidents. These listings serve as the key to a hidden city: a city of unconsidered
geographies and layered artifacts—the relics of low-level capitalism and the
debris of countless forgotten narratives.
This
pop up screening will take place in the Gallery opposite our focus project
exhibition New York Crystal Palace 1853 serving as a
poetic mediation on New York’s visual and material culture. The film will be
screened on a loop during Gallery hours.
July
67pmAn Evening with Jem Cohen
Featuring
Jem Cohen, Luc Sante, Ed Halter and Sarah Larson
Join
us for a special screening of Lost Book Found followed by a
lively conversation of Cohen’s work with special guests.
Jem Cohen is
a filmmaker/photographer who’s feature-length films include Museum
Hours, Counting, Chain, Benjamin Smoke, Instrument,
and World Without End (No Reported Incidents). Shorts include Little
Flags and Anne Truitt – Working. His films are in the
collections of NYC’s Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, The Jewish Museum, and
D.C.’s National Gallery, and have been broadcast by PBS, Arte, and the Sundance
Channel. He’s had retrospectives at Harvard Film Archive, London’s Whitechapel
and NFT, Indielisboa, Oberhausen, and Spain’s Punto de Vista. Photography
exhibitions include Robert Miller Gallery, SF Camerawork, and the Sharjah
Biennial. His multi-media show with live music, We Have an Anchor,
was a main stage production in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next
Wave series and London’s Barbican Centre.
Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New
York City. He is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and
electronic art in Brooklyn, New York, and his writing has appeared in Artforum,
The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome,
Triple Canopy, the Village Voice and elsewhere. His book From Sun Tzu
to Xbox: War and Video Games was published in 2006. From 1995 to 2005,
he programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival. He teaches as
Critic in Residence in the Film and Electronic Arts department at Bard College,
and is currently writing a history of contemporary experimental cinema in
America.
Sarah
Larson is a roving cultural correspondent for newyorker.com
Luc
Sante’s
books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory
of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and The Other Paris.
He has been a frequent contributor to the NY Review of Books since 1981 and had
written for a wide variety of other publications. He teaches writing and the
history of photography at Bard College.