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Lior Shamriz (Template:Lang-he, born September 13, 1978) is a writer, producer, and film director. He resides in Berlin and in Los Angeles.

Career

Born to a Kurdish-Iranian Jewish family in Ashkelon, a working class city in southern Israel, they skipped the army at 18 and moved to Tel Aviv where they began working on collective art publication and computer generated music.[1] They attended the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School until being expelled in 2004.[2] Critical of Zionism and Jewish nationalism in press interviews and in their film work[3][4], Shamriz immigrated to Berlin in 2006, pursuing graduate studies at the Institute for Time Based Media with Heinz Emigholz, at the Berlin University of the Arts[5], and they eventually settled down in the city.

Their first long film, Japan Japan (2006-2007), a micro-budget independent production, was presented at about fifty international film festivals, among them the Locarno International Film Festival, the Sarajevo Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and MoMA's New Directors/New Films Festival where chief film curator Rajendra Roy had noted it as one of the top ten film of the year[6]. A controversial and polarizing film[7], it tells a kaleidoscopic story of a young queer pacifist drop-out who is unable to succeed in saving enough money to leave Israel, while juxtaposing saturated pop music, pixelated virtual travelogues with poetry by Constantine P. Cavafy and Charles Olson, together with dramatic scenes and pornographic imagery.[8][9]

Saturn Returns (2009), their next long film, premiered opening Torino Film Festival's Onde, was nominated for the Max Ophüls Preis at the film festival in Saarbrücken, Germany and co-won the New Berlin Award at Achtung Berlin film festival.

Return Return (2010), a non-narrative video based on clips from Saturn Returns, premiered at the 60th Berlin Film Festival’s Forum Expanded,[10] where their feature films The Runaway Troupe of the Cartesian Theater premiered in 2013 at the 63rd edition of the festival, and Cancelled Faces at the 65th.[11][12]

In a 2012 review, Dimitri Eipides from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival noted that Shamriz "develops his own écriture, experimenting with form, deconstructing narratives and reconstructing their pieces into something unique, which bears his own personal trademark".[13]

In 2013 their film Beyond Love And Companionship received the 3sat Förderpreis from the German competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In 2014 their film L'amour sauvage received an Honorable Mention in the German competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In 2015 their video The Cultural Attaché/Tornado for the band Kreidler won the 2nd prize in the 17th MuVi Award competition[14] – 2014 they had started the collaboration with the band accompanying their album ABC with 6 video clips.[15][16]

Filmography

  • (2005) Return to the Savanna (6 Short Movies, approx. 75 min)
  • (2006) Ho! Terrible Exteriors (28 min)
  • (2007) The Farewell (Film)|The Farewell (45 min)
  • (2007) Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded (7 min)
  • (2007) Japan Japan (65 min)
  • (2008) The vacuum cleaner (8 min)
  • (2008) The Magic Desk (10 min)
  • (2009) Saturn Returns (90 min)
  • (2010) Ritenuto (63 min) – Saturn Returns - Satellite Film[17]
  • (2010) Titan (50 min) – Saturn Returns - Satellite Film[17]
  • (2010) Return Return (26 min) – Saturn Returns - Satellite Film[17]
  • (2011) Mirrors For Princes (60 min)
  • (2012) A Low Life Mythology (80 min)
  • (2012) Beyond Love and Friendship (18 min)
  • (2013) The Present of Cinema (7 min) (commissioned by International Short Film Festival Oberhausen)
  • (2013) The way of the Shaman (multiscreen video installation with Naama Yuria)
  • (2013) The Runaway Troupe of the Cartesian Theater (18 min)
  • (2014) L'amour sauvage (25 min)
  • (2014-2015) 6 music videos for Kreidler (6 videos, approx. 35 min)
  • (2015) The night (7 min)
  • (2015) Cancelled Faces (80 min)

References

  1. ^ "Yale University Radio Station".
  2. ^ "Star and Shadow Cinema".
  3. ^ "Tip Magazin Berlin" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Efrat Yahel Interview - Berlin" (PDF).
  5. ^ "Torino Film Festival 2011".
  6. ^ "indieWIRE & Industry Top 10s for 2008". Indiewire. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  7. ^ "Indiewire Dispatch from San Francisco".
  8. ^ "TimeOut London - Reykjavik 2008" (PDF). Time-out.
  9. ^ "IMDB".
  10. ^ "Berlin Film Festival 2010 Program" (PDF).
  11. ^ "Premiered February 2013, Berlin Film Festival".[permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ "CANCELLED FACES PREMIERES AT THE BERLINALE". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06.
  13. ^ "Thessaloniki Film Festival - Dimitri Eipides introduction to Lior Shamriz retrospective".
  14. ^ "The Winners of the 17th MuVi Award".
  15. ^ "Kreidler do it again: Auch ihr neues Album ABC werden sie komplett mit einem Regisseur in Musikvideoform nachbereiten".
  16. ^ "Und da waren es ihrer Sieben. Kreidler und Heinz Emigholz vollenden ihre gemeinsame Musikvideo-Reihe heute mit »Winter«". Archived from the original on 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
  17. ^ a b c "Spektakulativ Pictures »Saturn Returns - Satellite Films". Archived from the original on 2015-07-06.
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