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Just Hold Still

Original title: Just Hold Still
Year: 1989
Running time: 32 min.
Country: United States
Director: Jem Cohen
Screenwriter: Jem Cohen
Cast: Documentary
Music: Gabriel Cohen, Jem Cohen
Cinematography: Jem Cohen (B&W)
Producer: C-Hundred Film Corp
Genre: Documentary | Experimental Cinema. Half-length Film
Synopsis: In his New York City landscape, Cohen finds inspiration in disturbance. Looking to life for rhythm and to architecture for state of mind, he locates simple mysteries. Just Hold Still is comprised of an interconnected series of short works and collaborations that explore the gray area between documentary, narrative, and experimental genres.

The first part concerns a personal, poetic approach to narrative and includes 4:44 (From Her House Home), Never Change (with Blake Nelson), Love Teller (with Ben Katchor), and Light Years. The second part involves hybridized use of verité footage and the confrontation of documentary concerns with the music video format and includes Selected City Films, Glue Man (with Ian MacKaye), and Talk about the Passion (with R.E.M). The work can be considered as a whole, or each piece in the project can be viewed (and rented) as a separate entity.

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Just Hold Still

1989

Jem Cohen