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MAXI COHEN
is a video artist, photographer and independent filmmaker.
Her works have been exhibited and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Israeli Museum of Art. Her video installations, video works and photography have also been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, the New Museum, the Jewish Museum and Queens Museum in New York City, Everson Museum in Syracuse, the High Museum in Atlanta, and other museums, galleries, and festivals around the world, where she has won several first prize awards. Solo gallery shows of photography include Sandroni-Rey Gallery in Los Angeles, O.K. Harris and the Kitchen in New York City, among others.
Maxi directed and produced JOE AND MAXI, an award winning, theatrically released feature length documentary about her relationship with her father. In 2007, a newly restored 35mm print made with a grant from the Women in Film Preservation played at the Museum of Modern Art celebrating its invitation into the MoMA archives and the 100th year celebration of the MacDowell Artist Colony where Maxi did a residency.
For the feature film SEVEN WOMEN - SEVEN SINS, commissioned by ZDF, she directed the sin of ANGER, in which she interviewed angry people who answered a newspaper ad. Her film won many first prizes at international film festivals.
In answer to the Los Angeles Riots, Maxi produced and directed SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES: INSIDE VOICES, a documentary film made by African-Americans, Latinos and Koreans living in areas most affected by the riots. INSIDE VOICES was broadcast on Showtime, ARTE and ZDF (called the best documentary of 1994 in series). That year, BIRTY: THE GODMOTHER OF WATTS was commissioned by ARTE as a part of their Los Angeles theme night.
Maxi has produced short films for Saturday Night Live, The Comedy Channel, MTV Network, PBS, Children's Television Workshop, and Fox Broadcasting. Independently produced shorts and feature length documentaries, fiction, and animation by Maxi have been broadcast on network, public television, cable and foreign television.
After graduating from New York University she produced a weekly TV series in Cape May, NJ., that was recognized by the National Cable TV Association as the first successful example of interactive community TV. As the director of the country's first prototypical public access facility (a project of the Alternate Media Center) in New York City, she produced 30 hours a week of inventive programming. The following year, she administered the first US video art distribution system, ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX, now the most comprehensive collection of video art in the world. Maxi was a founding member of the INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT and FIRST RUN FEATURES, the first company devoted to distributing American independent films.
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