Room to Breathe by Russell Long

Hervé Cohen

Cinematographer

Hervé Cohen is a French American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer. His work has taken him to various parts of the world from the Casamance in Senegal where he filmed the initiation ceremony of the young Diolas (award winning Sikambano, The Sons of the Sacred Woods) to the countryside of Sichuan, China, to follow the work of three traveling projectionists (Electric Shadows, winner of several international festivals). In 2008 he co-directed and shot Closer to the Dream for French television, a family road movie about the Democratic primaries in the U.S. Hervé has been working as a DP with Harvard professors Robb Moss and Peter Galison on an on-going project about nuclear waste in the United States called Nuclear Underground. He recently shot and edited the documentary Broken Stones by Guetty Felin, a film about self-recovery after the Haiti quake, which takes place around the ruins of the cathedral of Port-au-Prince. His current project is called The Music of Time, a documentary that he directed, shot and is currently editing; a poetic musical journey from the Andes to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, to discover the greatest biodiversity in the world but also the fragility of the ecosystem – with the collaboration of musicians Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding. For more info, visit www.hervecohen.com