Counting ( Jem Cohen, 2015)

Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film. Perhaps the most personal of Cohen s documentary works, COUNTING measures street life, light, and time, noting not only surveillance and overdevelopment but resistance and its phantoms as manifested in music, animals and everyday magic.