Person
Ira Cohen
Acting · 1935–2011 · The Bronx, New York
Biography
Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, before returning to New York, where he spent the rest of his life.
Known for
The Stone Age
1970
Brain Damage
Director
Excavating Taylor Mead
Self
Joan of Arc
Self
Kings With Straw Mats
Director
The Invisible Father
Self (archival footage)
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
The Majoon Traveler, Death
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
Self
FLicKeR
Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
Filmography
- 2021The Invisible FatherSelf (archival footage)
- 2013Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always OpenSelf
- 2009FLicKeRSelf
- 2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisSelf
- 2006Played for Real - Ira Cohen
- 2006Brain DamageDirector
- 2005Excavating Taylor MeadSelf
- 1986Kings With Straw MatsDirector
- 1970The Stone Age
- 1969Paradise Now: The Living Theater in AmerikaProducer
- 1968The Invasion of Thunderbolt PagodaThe Majoon Traveler, Death
- 1967Joan of ArcSelf
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