WORLD WITHOUT END (NO REPORTED INCIDENTS)

UK, US, 2016, 57’

Director: Jem Cohen

Production: Gravity Hill, Metal

 

SELECTIONS AND AWARDS

 

Vienna IFF (2016)

Sundance IFF (2017)

 

SYNOPSIS

 

Quite close to London, but for many, a million miles away, Southend-on-Sea is a town along the Thames estuary. “World Without End (No Reported Incidents)”, the new documentary from Jem Cohen is a portrait of this place — everyday streets, everyday birds, unflagging tides, mud, and sky. But it is also about humanity and history, about prize-winning Indian curries, an encyclopedic universe of hats, and a nearly lost world of proto-punk music.

 

BIOGRAPHY OF DIRECTOR

 

Jem Cohen was 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, R.E.M., Vic Chesnutt, and The Ex.

 

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)

 

2015 — Counting

2012 — Museum Hours

2008 — Evening’s Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin

2006 — Building a Broken Mousetrap

2004 — Chain

2000 — Benjamin Smoke

1999 — Instrument