Dean Otto
A Bulwark Against Erasure: Jem Cohen’s Occupy Wall Street Newsreels
On September 17, 2011–the day the Occupy movement was born–Jem Cohen was there filming what would become his Gravity Hill Newsreels: Occupy Wall Street. A day after the movement’s one-year anniversary, Cohen discussed the project and how these “newsreals” served as a “bulwark against erasure” by mainstream news outlets intent on declaring Occupy dead.