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

“Port Saïd, Santa Cruz, Sarmad Kashani”, a new short film by Lior Shamriz, will premiere in May 2022 in situ at the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage in Germany. The film is 14 minutes long. “A triptych about projections on bodies, made by projecting on my body.” kurzfilmtage.de

Interdisciplinary Art Project Kobe

“A Short Film About Sarmad” by Lior Shamriz takes part in the exhibition at the Interdisciplinary Art Project Kobe, Japan, at the Katsuhiro atelier on Awaji island, together with works by Norio IMAI, Ryota KUMAKI, Hiromi DEMURA, Shuhei NISHIYAMA, Sung Nam HAN and Katsuhiro YAMAGUCHI. The festival runs March 10-27, 2022. More information on the […]

Loud Voices – Queer Jewish Artists and Scholar on the Weaponization of Antisemitism

Queer Jewish artists and scholars Judith Butler, Lior Shamriz, BH Yael and Marc Siegel discuss their films/work in relation to solidarity with Palestine, and speak back against the increasing weaponization of anti-Semitism, which is used as a method to silence artists and activists.

ON DEMAND November 18 at 2:00pm EST until November 20, 2021

Interview with the Griffin Poetry Prize

In the following interview with the creators of the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners Announcement Film, Chloé Griffin and Lior Shamriz, we discuss the relationship between poems and visual imagery, how resonances across media can expand the significance of the poem beyond simple illustration, and the long-time collaboration between our two interviewees!

Showcase of films by Steak Films Seoul

From June 26 – July 26, Steak Film with Ajo ByAjo and spektakulativ present The Cage, Saturn Returns, L’amour Savuage, The Magic Desk and more. Every weekend in Seoul. https://steakfilm.com/

Film for the Griffin Poetry Prize Premieres June 23

A twenty-minutes film for the Griffin Poetry prize by Lior Shamriz and Chloé Griffin, with poetry reading by Victoria Chang, Yusef Komunyaaka, Srikanth Reddy, Tracy K. Smith, Joseph Dandurand, Canisia Lubrin, Yusuf Saadi and Vlzhyna Mort premiered June 23. http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com Watch it here:

Fetish Puppies at the Tom of Finland house

Long overdue L.A premiere for Fetish Puppies Break Free! at the Tom of Finland House in mid December 2020.

Shop for Prints & Posters

Prints & Posters are available through the following link. Proceeds from prints sales are shared with the performers who appear in the images. https://shop.spektakulativ.com/

Personal Ritual

Project Space Festival Juárez 2020 [SCROLL DOWN FOR ENGLISH] Nos complace presentar el presente evento virtual titulado Personal Ritual (Ritual Personal). Nueve artistas de diferentes partes del mundo crearon un perfomance para ser activado por cualquier persona interesada. Es nuestro deseo mantener esta actividad lo mas privada posible. Que sea como un secreto mutuo. Por […]

Read Untitled by Lior Shamriz

Read “Untitled” – a short story by Lior Shamriz, which was commissioned by MoMA Dirty Looks on Location’s reader in 2013. Under the title “Mining the Collection”, MoMA was inviting filmmakers to respond to films in the MoMA archive, and Shamriz was invited to respond to Lothar Lambart’s 1 Berlin-Harlem. In this short story, Shamriz […]

The Cage and more on Amazon Prime, VimeoVOD

Watch The Cage, A Low Life Mythology, Saturn Returns & Mirrors For Princes on Amazon Prime in the U.K, Japan & U.S. The films are also available via Vimeo VOD, FilmDoo and more. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08DX5GSWP