![Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC) [work in progress]. 2024. USA/Canada. Directed by Jem Cohen. Courtesy the filmmkaer](/d/assets/W1siZiIsIjIwMjQvMTAvMjIvM21nZW1xMmhhNV9KVU5FX1JFRF9NQUJPVV9KZW1fQ29oZW4uanBnIl0sWyJwIiwiY29udmVydCIsIi1xdWFsaXR5IDkwIC1yZXNpemUgNzc1eDUyNV4gLWdyYXZpdHkgQ2VudGVyIC1jcm9wIDc3NXg1MjUrMCswIl1d/JUNE%20RED%20MABOU_Jem%20Cohen.jpg?sha=3324ba05b893a6ff)
In 2015 Robert Frank donated all his films and videos to MoMA’s collection. Several years earlier, the Museum had become the world’s major repository of Jem Cohen’s films and videos. How beautiful and fitting that the work of these two artists should be preserved under the same roof, for Frank and Cohen not only shared similar passions and aesthetic interests but were also friends for nearly 30 years. In the early 1990s, Frank had responded warmly to one of Jem Cohen’s films, Buried in Light, sparking a connection that would last until Frank’s death in 2019 and his artist wife June Leaf’s death this past July. On November 22 Cohen will present his new films on “Robert and June” as works in progress, and will discuss two new books in which he reflects on them both, soon available from Frank’s longtime publisher, Steidl.
We Have an Anchor. 2015. USA/Canada. Directed by Jem Cohen. DCP. 11 min.
“An excerpt from a portrait of Cape Breton shot over 10 years. Last presented in New York as a live show in BAM’s 2013 Next Wave series, it’s now reconfigured as a single-channel film. June reflects on their home life in Mabou; Robert tells a dark tale of a neighbor’s dog; New Glasgow antique seller, John Marshall, speaks about their long friendship” (Jem Cohen).
Robert and June (Cape Breton and NYC) [work in progress]. 2024. USA/Canada. Directed by Jem Cohen. DCP. 20 min.
“In films shot on 16mm and Super 8 over many years, now edited digitally, I reflect on my many visits to the homes of Robert and June in a relentlessly changing NYC and a seemingly timeless Cape Breton” (Jem Cohen).
June Leaf [excerpt from a work in progress]. 2024. Directed by Jem Cohen. DCP. 15 min.
“An intimate glimpse of June Leaf in her studio at the Bleecker Street home she shared with her husband Robert Frank. June, who worked fiercely ‘every day for over 70 years,’ pauses from sculpting to read a letter she wrote to Robert’s mother describing her work” (Jem Cohen).
Program approx. 46 min.