Mimesis Launch @ Cittpunkt Berlin

Mimesis Magazine – Film as PerformanceLaunch of Issue #2: Let’s Spoil!Screening at cittipunkt, Brüsseler Straße 36A, BerlinDecember 8th, 17:00 www.mimesismagazine.com

Durden and Ray Group Exhibition

Who Held Their Heart In Their Hands, and Ate Of ItArt at the meeting point between opposite poles. Opening reception: January 11, 2025 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Run of show: January 11 – February 2, 2025Hours: Saturdays, noon-5 p.m Durden and Ray. 1206 Maple Ave, #832, Los Angeles Curated by Regina Herod, Emily Lucid, and Alexandra […]

Nova University’s Institute of Philosophy Conference

Paper Presentation on A.I. speculative imagery and architecture in Palestine/Israel by Lior Shamriz. October 16 at Nova University’s Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon Full program

Eden @ Last Projects Los Angeles

November 15 group exhibition curated by Emily Lucid at Last Project Los Angeles.

Foggy in Lisbon & Porto

Queer Lisboa (September 2024) and Queer Porto (October 2024) screen the program Foggy, collectively curated by John Greyson, Marc Siegel, bh Yael and Lior Shamriz, including works by Mike Hoolboom, Annie Sakkab, Hadi Moussally and Amy Gottlieb and more, as part of its Queer Resistance focus. https://queerlisboa.pt/en/news/queer-resistance-an-urgent-cinema-for-our-2024-editions

Photography of Indenture on JNZPS

Photography of Indenture – on the image of a family of service workers in the 1882 book “Tahiti, A Series of Photograph”, published by the Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, Volume 12, June 2024. https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/nzps_00187_1

Films for the Griffin Poetry Prize

Saturn Returns at Achtung Berlin Anniversary

Saturn Returns (2009), which won the Best Feature prize at the festival’s 2010 edition, screens at the festival’s 20 years anniversary program. https://achtungberlin.de/2024/saturn-returns

Foggy – Queer Cinema for Palestine in Ottawa

May 16, 2024 at the Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), Ottawa, Canada. https://www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/foggy-palestine-solidarity-cinema-the-archive/

ESTUARIES and SARMAD KASHANI in Mexico City

January 4 at LA CUEVA: A screening of ESTUARIES and SARMAD KASHANI.

2023 film round-up list for Desist Film

Seoul MMCA Panel – Documentation

Pacific History Association Conference

“A Photograph of Service Workers in Tahiti” – Paper presentation by Lior Shamriz at the biannual Pacific History Association Conference, October 31-November 4, Warrnambool, Australia. The presentation is part of the panel “Colonial Images and their Afterlife”, with Anne Maxwell, Heidi Brevik-Zender, Nicole Furtado, and Lior Shamriz, chaired by Heather Waldroup.

ESTUARIES Release Date (US/CAN)

ESTUARIES will be released on DVDs and Online November 28, 2023.

Groups show at the Happy Lion, Los Angeles

OOZE – Curated by Emily Lucid. October 28, 2023, The Happy Lion, 963 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles.

Music on Spotify, Apple, Youtube etc.

Some music by Lior Shamriz (under “spektakulativ”) is now available on Spotify, Apple, Youtube and other music streaming services worldwide. More albums to be added soon.

Los Angeles Screening for ESTUARIES

October 27, 8 pm, @ Potential Spam Gallery Los Angeles, 6701 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles CA 90042.

Lior Shamriz’s films for poet Heather McHugh

More here: https://heathermchugh.substack.com/ And here: https://liorshamriz.com/heather-mchugh-five-poems-2/

Mimesis Magazine – Open Call

https://mimesismagazine.com/news/lets-spoil-open-call

Project Space Festival Juárez

The festival, curated by Lior Shamriz and Gabriela Durán-Barraza, takes place October 10-15, 2023 in different homes in the city of Juárez (Chihuahua) and will include works by Jumana Manna, Sondra Perry, Hito Steyerl, Mike Wareing and others.

@ Viscose / Between Bridges Berlin

During the week of September 11-17, Lior Shamriz & Matt Polzin will work at Viscose studio @ Between Bridges Berlin. Reminiscing on his fantasies of late 1990s and early 2000s high fashion while living in the East Mediterranean, Shamriz revisits the hi-8 tapes and visual materials they recorded two decades ago of queer Mizrahi army drop-outs […]

“Port Saïd” on Berkeley’s QuiParle Ki

“Port Saïd Santa Cruz Sarmad Kashani” is on the second issue of Berkeley’s QuiParle Ki magazine.

Screening at Image Forum Tokyo July 30

A program with short films by Lior Shamriz at Image Forum, Shibuya, Tokyo. http://www.imageforum.co.jp/cinematheque/1067/index.html

24-hours Marathon at SteakFilm Seoul

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MMCA Panel July 15

“When Queers and Indigenous Entities Form the Future,” with artist siren eun young jung, Lior Shamriz and Skawennati, as well as scholars in visual culture Lee Won Jean and Mindy Seu. At MMCA, Seoul. https://watchandchill.kr/ko/

New York screening June 16

Four short films by Lior Shamriz. 8 pm. Jume 16. Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216

Videos for the Griffin Poetry Prize

Six poetry films, with image and music by Lior Shamriz, made for poem readings by the Griffin Poetry Prize nominees, Ocean Vuong, Iman Mersel, Robyn Creswell, Roger Reeves, Susan Musgrave, Ada Límon, and the Canada First Book Prize winner Emily Robbles.

Film at IAS in Santa Cruz

A new video work by Lior Shamriz is to be presented at Institute for Arts and Science in Santa Cruz, as part of the Coha-Gunderson Prize exhibition. Taking place June 2-3, 2023.

Watch And Chill 3.0

Two films by Lior Shamriz – “Port Saïd, Santa Cruz, Sarmad Kashani” & “Fetish Puppies Break Free!” will screen at “Watch and Chill 3.0”. The exhibition is an initiative of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), in collaboration with the National Gallery Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia, the Tono Festival in […]

Launch Events for Mimesis in Berlin & Los Angeles

Mimesis – Film as Performance magazine. In January 2023, #1 issue – “The Fringes of Resistance” was launched, with contributions by Noor Abed, Bojana Cvejić, Mariah Garnett, Matt Polzin, Lior Shamriz, and Elbe Trakal. To celebrate the launch, Mimesis will hold two evenings with short films and a table reading at: B_Books (Lübbener Str. 14, […]

Queer Wonderlands: Keynote Speaker

As part of the Toronto Queer Film Festival Queer Wonderlands symposium, Lior Shamriz will take part in the keynote presentation on April 23, 2023. With witty irony and superfluous melodrama, Lior Shamriz treats cinema not merely as the documentation of a dramatic performance but as a trace of the interaction between actors, crew, memory, and […]

ESTUARIES in Toronto

ESTUARIES will screen at the Toronto Queer Film Festival in late March 2023. More information on their website:

Class Visit at UNCSA

On February 15, Lior Shamriz visits Lydia Hicks’s Directing class at University of North Carolina School of the Arts for a workshop.

Mimesis Magazine is Published

Mimesis Magazine – Film as Performance – Issue #1 – Winter 2023 Interested in the politics of resistance as well as in forces of resistance within the  unconscious, we take a close look at the margins of the personal and the political in film practices. The mimesis of the media environment that encompasses us is […]

Coha Gunderson Prize For Bird Divination in Mesopotamia Today

Lior Shamriz’s Bird Divination in Mesopotamia Today receives the Coha Gunderson Prize from UCSC, where Shamriz is now pursuing a Ph.D.

Recent Publications

Review by Lior Shamriz about Jamie Berry’s Whakapapa/Algorithms, published by Pacific Arts journal. The article is accessible here: Read Lior Shamriz’s 2022 top tens on Desistfilm:

Q&A Video for Steak Cinema / AjoByAjo

This Q&A video was recorded for the Steak Cinema / AjoByAjo screening in Seoul in summer 2021. The questions were sent by Jongwook Choi and Nilesh Kumar from Steak Cinema.

Short films on Here.Tv

THE NIGHT & BEYOND LOVE AND COMPANIONSHIP are now available on Here.TV, accessible also through Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire. https://www.here.tv/video/the-night

Film Workshop in Juárez, Mexico

ESTUARIES screens at UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 7pm https://film.ucsc.edu/news

SATURN RETURNS + RETURN RETURN in Seoul

“SATURN RETURNS Returns With RETURN RETURN” – at Steak Cinema 311. August 5 from 7pm, with director in-person Q&A

OUTFEST LA 2022: The Consequences of Belonging, and Not Belonging, In ‘Estuaries’ / Jason Flatt

Estuaries – Artsy Teaser Trailer

L.A. Premiere for ESTUARIES at OUTFEST

Screening Sunday, July 17 at the Redcat in DTLA

Poetry Videos for the Griffin Foundation

Watch the Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Announcement Film – with 7 poetry videos by Lior Shamriz, for readings by Ed Roberson, Douglas Kearney, Liz Howard, Gemma Gorga, Tolu Oloruntoba, David Bradford and Natalka Bilotserkivets:

ESTUARIES at FRAMELINE SAN FRANCISCO

ESTUARIES will premiere at FRAMELINE 46 on Saturday evening, June 25 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

Conversation with Barbara McCullough

May 25 – Barbara McCullough – In Conversation with Lior Shamriz A native of New Orleans, Barbara McCullough has spent most of her life in southern California. Her initial interest was in photography but the moving image, immediacy, and possible forum for ideas set her on a path of exploration. McCullough’s work progressed to examining […]

The Cage on GagaOOLala

The Cage (2017) is now available via GagaOOLala, a Taiwan-based distribution company with one of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ streaming libraries.

New Short Film Premieres in Oberhausen