Forget story, plot and character. Filmmaker Jem Cohen's 'Counting' is an experimental marvel.

Jem Cohen began his career making restless, quietly watchful films having to do with evanescence, moments of vagrant, accidental beauty and the lonely interior rhythms of travel. Even his recent forays into more conventionally linear narrative, with such films as "Chain" (2004) and "Museum Hours" (2012), evinced Cohen's cardinal themes of dislocation and the charged particles of chance encounters.