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Growing Upward
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Growing Upward

DP, Video Editor, Motion Graphics, Projection Design, Photography, Co-Director Music video for Oakland based band, Rupa and the April Fishes.
ISU INI
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ISU INI

DP, Video Editor, Co-Director Video portrait of Yunuen Rhi performing baguazhang for her Martial Healing Arts practice, Isuini.
Lost Highway
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Lost Highway

Concept Artist, Video Editor Music video for the band Dirtwire using found film footage.
The LIGHT
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The LIGHT

Concept Artist, DP, Video Editor, Projection Design, Photography Music video for San Francisco band, Dangermaker
John Cage Variations II performed by a Mariachi Band
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John Cage Variations II performed by a Mariachi Band

DP, Video editor, Director Guillermo Galindo's adaptation of John Cage Variations II performed by a Mariachi Band is the first installment of an experimental documentary by Zen Cohen which follows the process of bringing this controversial piece to the stage of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art John Cage's 100 birthday celebration.
OnBoard, SF: City Hall
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OnBoard, SF: City Hall

DP/Editor Short video story with an interview by architect, John Ellis about San Francisco's City Hall.
Next Level Bosnia Documentary
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Next Level Bosnia Documentary

In August 2014, the Next Level program, in partnership with the U.S. Embassy to Bosnia and the Sarajevo War Theater, conducted an international hip hop residency in Sarajevo Check out the documentary on the Next Level program! -Produced by Jen Cohen Studios-

Video Production

Photography

ABOUT

Zen Cohen

I'm a video maker, photographer, designer and visual artist. I've worked in media production for over a decade with clients ranging from visual and performing artists, non-profits, and private clients. I moved to Iowa City, IA in 2018 after living in the San Francisco Bay Area for eighteen years. I teach media art and film studies at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. In the summer of 2020, I founded the Open Air Media Festival, an outdoors media arts program in Iowa City.

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Education

University of California, Davis 

MFA Art Studio, 2011

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California College of the Arts (CCA) 

BFA Media Arts, 2004