ESTUARIES and SARMAD KASHANI in Mexico City
January 4 at LA CUEVA: A screening of ESTUARIES and SARMAD KASHANI.
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.
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/
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 fantasizing about an unreachable Berlin. The mundane footage includes navel-gazing dance experiments in front of the mirror accompanied by Marlene Dietrich and Ryoji Ikeda, folding laundry to David Bowie, Tekken battles on PlayStation, and Gucci magazine spreads. Shamriz considers both the naivety of this anti-nationalist queer urban past as well as the endearing promises of their dreams about Foucault and Balenciaga.
Writing fiction, Matt Polzin researches how rural geographies are utilized by coastal U.S. artists as a canvas for fantasizing escape. He reflects on the aesthetics of past utopian land projects in the Midwest, including artist colonies, hippie communes, and queer separatists, and pulls from his own experiments with rural living in his early twenties. Probing the competing narratives of the Great Lakes region as climate refuge and conservative backwater, he explores the romanticization of rural poverty as a condition of capitalist expansion.
“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 Mexico City, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.
The films will also be available globally through the event’s online platform, beginning April 7, 2023 (which coincides with the opening of the Gwangju Biennial) through April 7, 2024. The exhibition presentation in Seoul will take place from April 12 – July 23, 2023. The Tono Festival runs in Mexico City from April 18 – 30, 2023 in Mexico, and the National Gallery of Victoria exhibition runs in Melbourne from January 5 – April 7, 2024. Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, will screen the films in November 2023.
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, Kreuzberg, Berlin) on March 26, 2023 from 7 p.m.
- Poetic Research Bureau (2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057) on April 9, 2023 from 6 p.m.
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 place, using the screen to project and examine topics like immigration, post-colonialism and orientalism, othering and belonging. “A separation of reality from mimesis is a dualist illusion,” Shamriz says. “A film is often not a record of an interaction, but rather, it is the interaction with the spaces we visit and the people we encounter”. For their keynote talk, Shamriz will discuss their work in research-based essay videos, poetry videos, performance, and independent cinema, and will turn to Keguro Macharia’s concept of Frottage to consider cinema as a medium of gathering traces of interactions that activate our engagement with the world.
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 crucial as much as it is endemic. Considering our social encounters as remakes of visual and time-based culture, we feel the need to unravel the cinematically entangled body and its colonial, authoritarian, patriarchal, and capitalist histories. Be it in public dance choreographies, the intimate practice of reading, ancient mesopotamian storytelling, agitprop theater or neorealist cinema – in “The Fringes of Resistance” we try to carve out the mutable contours of territories of power and make them visible to us. In our first issue we sift for threads to pick up from the myths of authenticity, identification and ideology that are engraved in the images that surround us. Through essays, fiction and conversations we explore contradictions in our practices, theorize them and (try to) make them work for us and for others.
With contributions by Noor Abed, Bojana Cvejić, Mariah Garnett, Matt Polzin, Lior Shamriz and Elbe Trakal.
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.
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
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 creative process of artists but always maintaining a fascination with experimental film and video. McCullough sees herself as part of the continuum of African American storytellers whose aim is to preserve knowledge by capturing the essence of her culture — its life, spirit, and magic. She states, “I am dedicated to the preservation of the heritage of the African American artist/cultural worker by documenting her/his achievements for future generations to keep the music and visual poetry alive.” Her work has been shown in galleries, museums, and film festivals nationally and internationally and she is associated with UCLA filmmakers known as the LA Rebellion.
https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/conversation-filmmaker-barbara-mccullough
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.”
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 event’s website: http://i-a-f-t.net/iapk2022_vol7/
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.
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 lo que, mandarnos un correo electrónico a projectspacefestivaljuarez@gmail.com será necesario para mandarles los links y contraseñas para cada ritual del 15-23 de Octubre (las direcciones electrónicas no serán utilizadas para ningún otro propósito). Los rituales no se publicarán de manera abierta en línea. Nos gustaría invitarte a participar y si lo deseas nos puedes mandar comentarios y/o imágenes sobre tus experiencias con los rituales. Estos solo serán compartidos con los artistas de este evento. Saludos Cordiales El Equipo de Project Space Festival Juárez We are pleased to present this year’s virtual event – “Personal Ritual”. Nine artists from different parts of the world created a performance to be activated by anyone interested. It is our wish to keep this activity as private as possible. Like a mutual secret. Therefore, sending us an email to projectspacefestivaljuarez@gmail.com will be necessary in order to receive links and passwords for every ritual from the 15-23th of October (The email addresses will not be used for other purposes). The rituals will not be published openly online. We would like to invite you to participate, and if you’d like to, you can send back comments and/or images of your experiences with the rituals. These will only be shared with the artists of the event. Warm Wishes Project Space Festival Juárez Team Artists: Neha Choksi, Edgar Fabian Frias, Sung Nam Han, Dahn Gim, Chloé Griffin, Lydia Hicks, Marcia Santos, Lior Shamriz, Anna Zett Curated by Gabriela Durán and Lior Shamriz https://projectspacefestivaljuarez.com/series-iii/ |
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 humorously pokes fun at the cultural appropriation, orientalism and exoticism of Berlin’s cultural scene in 1973.
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
