June Leaf on Screen
Program 1: Jem Cohen and Panel Discussion
In conjunction with the exhibition June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
September 9–December 13, 2025
The Grey and Anthology Film Archives present three programs of films and videos that document June Leaf’s life and work, and attempt to capture her profoundly creative, exploratory, and uncompromising spirit.
PROGRAM 1: JEM COHEN AND PANEL DISCUSSION
In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Jem Cohen sent an unsolicited VHS tape of his recently-completed film BURIED IN LIGHT (1994) to Robert Frank and June Leaf, and was shocked to receive a heartfelt and substantive handwritten letter in response. This exchange blossomed into a decades-long friendship, with Leaf in particular, that proved vitally important to Cohen. Over the years, he filmed Leaf intermittently, resulting in a collection that documents Leaf’s work and personality with extraordinary elegance, sensitivity, and insight. Cohen will present a selection of excerpts from his work-in-progress project about June Leaf.
The screening will be followed by a special panel discussion on Leaf’s life and work with some of her closest collaborators and admirers: artist and poet Alice Attie, filmmaker Jem Cohen, filmmaker Sara Driver (NYU Tisch ’82), and filmmaker Laura Israel (NYU Tisch ’83).
Total running time: ca. 70 min, plus panel discussion.
VISITOR ACCESS & REGISTRATION
Purchase tickets in advance on Anthology’s website; tickets are also available at Anthology’s box office.
