Philosophical detective story? Portrait of New York? Chronicle of
obsession? Lost Book Found is all these, and something else for which we
don't yet have a name. A sidewalk pushcart vendor becomes haunted by a
cryptic book of lists - phrases, places, names, numbers - which
tantalisingly seems to find systems in the city's chaos. In the same
way, Cohen's hallucinatory short film (6 years in the making)
resonates long after it's over. His sideways gaze at fleeting moments -
plastic bags in the wind (years before American Beauty), lost objects
glittering in the gutter, people passing one another on the pavement -
will change the way you see the world.
