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

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
2013
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
Excavating Taylor Mead
2005
Joan of Arc
1967
Brain Damage
2006
FLicKeR
2009
Played for Real - Ira Cohen
2006
Paradise Now: The Living Theater in Amerika
1969
The Stone Age
1970
The Invisible Father
2021
Kings With Straw Mats
1986

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
9
Directing
3
Producing
1
2021
The Invisible Father
as Self (archival footage)
2013
Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
as Self
2009
FLicKeR
as Self
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self
2006
Played for Real - Ira Cohen
2005
Excavating Taylor Mead
as Self
1970
The Stone Age
1968
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
as The Majoon Traveler, Death
1967
Joan of Arc
as Self