Still from Counting — Counting (2015) — Jem Cohen

Jem Cohen

Counting

Name: Counting
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015
Duration: 111 min

United States / English / 2015 / 1h 51m

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Synopsis

In fifteen linked chapters shot in locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, Jem Cohen merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life. Perhaps the most personal of Cohen's films, COUNTING measures street life, light, and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals, and everyday magic.