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

https://queercinemaforpalestine.org/2021/10/31/berlin-loud-voices-queer-jewish-artists-for-palestine-nov-18/

Interview with the Griffin Poetry Prize

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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

Edgar Schmitt in Quarantine – Music on Bandcamp

Edgar Schmitt in Quarantine (WIP) by spektakulativ

FETISH PUPPIES BREAK FREE! & L’AMOUR SAUVAGE at EPFC Los Angeles

Two Short Films By Lior ShamrizSunday March 15 2020Echo Park Film Center,  1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, CA 90026Doors Open 7.30 PM, Screening begins 8.00 PM 1. FETISH PUPPIES BREAK FREE! (2020) 15 minutes. In 1934 Berlin, Jakob is visited by a friend who urges him to leave the country. Following the visit, to clear his […]

Patricia’s Message at IAFT Tokyo

Please join us March 20 – 29 at the MIDORI.so2 Gallery in Tokyo, where Lior Shamriz’s work Patricia’s Message will be installed as part of the Interdisciplinary Art Festival Tokyo. http://i-a-f-t.net/iaft1920_in_tokyo/

Film Screening at the Drawing Center New York

Join us on Thursday, November 21 at 6:30pm for a video screening in conjunction with Wasteland: Open Sessions 16, which will feature videos selected by filmmaker Lior Shamriz, and Open Sessions artist Young Joo Lee. The screening will feature short films focused on shifts in national and individual identities, the displacement and alienation of persons by […]

Patricia’s Message at IAFT Osaka

Beginning November 22.

L’amour Sauvage at Atenum Museum Helsinki

At Urbanapa Atenum Museum, October 2019.

Project Space Juarez – Purge

5 days film/video event programmed by Lior Shamriz in Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. Program Notes This film program presents works expanding from the tension between Labour <> Border <> Body <> A.I.We’re presenting about 40 films from different times and places, screened on both side of the border in Juarez and El Paso. From a […]

Spring in the Park – Excerpt

‘The Cage’ at the Sinheung market in Seoul

‘The Cage’ will screen October 12 at the Sinheung market in Seoul as part of Space One’s Gender Hierarchy.

The Cage (Hebrew Version)

In this iteration of The Cage, the film is told with one narrator, in Hebrew (recorded by the director, Lior Shamriz). In addition to some changes in editing, the soundtrack is comprised only of narration and music, that was written especially for this version.

New short film at the Tom of Finland House in Los Angeles

A new short film by Lior Shamriz set in Berlin in 1934 and filmed at the Tom of Finland house in Echo Park, Los Angeles.

2019 Griffin Poetry Prize Awards Film

Film by Lior Shamriz & Chloe Griffin commissioned for the awards ceremony on June 6 2019.

Fallen Blossoms (2016) – excerpt

Allen is annoyed by Kyle who is flirting and making out with their friend in front of him. At the same time, in a different realm, Kyle is telling a mysterious story about a young girl and the maid who raised her.

Infantile (2005)

Desperately looking for some freedom on the freeways of Israel in this little oldie from 2005.

Echo Park Film Center Screening

Two Works by Lior Shamriz. March 8, 8pm at the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles.

Glendale Techno

The Farewell

“The Farewell” is a 40 minutes long film filmed in 2005 by Lior Shamriz in collaboration with the Zaza theater company. A group of misfits must deal with the death of a parental figure, Rosetta. In the absence of Rosetta, the group falls into repetitive behavior interrupted by occasional bursts of violence. In an attempt to escape its despair, the group decides to try and […]

Film program in Juarez

THE BODY IS A CAGE, THE BODY IS CAGED This program in 3 parts is best viewed as a whole — as one long essay with 10 films, broken by two pauses. I curated this program from a personal vantage point, juxtaposing works by different visual artists and filmmakers, including my own work, to explore […]

Interview of Lior Shamriz with Yale University Radio WYBCX

Lior Shamriz

THE CAGE on demand

Call for Actors (Los Angeles)

I’m sharing an initial call for actors for an upcoming project. I’m looking to cast a few different roles for a scripted long-form episodical / art film. * All genders, accents, ethnicities. Mainly 25-40 but not only * Los Angeles area * Paid * Please add a personal introduction, headshot, resume, reel & send it […]

LACDA Los Angeles Exhibition

THE PRESENT – a 4 weeks workshop in Los Angeles

Film director and artist Lior Shamriz leads a 4-week intensive workshop expanding the realm of performance for the camera. This workshop will be using the live process of recording as means to create a framework for extended representation. THE PRESENT – will focus on the construction, representation and manipulation of what we call “the present” […]

THE NIGHT in Frankfurt

DIE PUPILLE – Kino in der Uni 09.07.18 http://www.pupille.org/termin.php?tnr=345

The Cage in Tokyo

FALLEN BLOSSOMS on VIMEO VOD

SpaceOne Seoul Screening

View this post on Instagram 4.5 2018 다음주 목요일 핑크노이즈팝업의 클로징과 함께 리오 샴리즈의 더 케이지 상영회가 있습니다! 4.5 next Thursday, last day to see the exhibition pink noise pop up and a special guest screening Lior Shamriz "The Cage" #artinseoul #artspaceone #spaceone #신흥시장 #스페이스원 #해방촌 A post shared by Space One (@artspaceone) on Mar […]

IAFT 2018 Interview

Artist Talk in Provincetown MA

December 3 2017 Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown 24 Pearl St, Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657 https://www.facebook.com/events/850126721823666/

Installation in Hollywood

Installation at Visual Artists Group, 5239 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles. Corduene Meditation Site and Mirrors for Princes. November 24-26 2017 ” Visual Artist Group is happy to present a new iteration for Lior Shamriz’ Corduene Meditation Space, made especially for the space in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Side by side to the meditation space we will […]

Filming in Fujioka with Chloe Griffin

Screening at Amiens Film Festival

Cancelled Faces at Amiens Film Festival France. http://www.filmfestamiens.org/

Images from filming

Images from filming “The Sludge of Nanjido” in Seoul in spring 2017. The project is sponsored by SeMA – Seoul Museum of Art Nanji Residency, Goethe Institute & ifa Germany.

Installation at SeMA Nanji

KURDANAYE SITE FOR HEALING – an installation at SeMA Nanji Seoul. Meditating on the meaning of territory, nationhood and trauma of the self, Shamriz re-imagines a 5th century Kurdanaye religious site for healing and appropriates it for contemporary setting within an art gallery. This parallel duality of irony and spirituality is a site-specific variation on […]

L’AMOUR SAUVAGE on VHS

L’AMOUR SAUVAGE on VHS. Coming out July 1. 25$ + Shipment (includes digital download) ! LIMITED EDITION ! Preorder at contact@spektakulativ.com

Films on VOD

Check them out here: https://vimeo.com/liors/vod_pages  

Films Online on Filmdoo, Filmin

Low Life, Cancelled Faces, Japan Japan, Saturn Returns on Filmdoo: https://www.filmdoo.com/films/a-low-life-mythology/ Cancelled Faces with Spanish subtitles on Filmin: http://filmin.es/pelicula/cancelled-faces

Enter

https://vimeo.com/200287570

The Recursive Stage – 8 Weeks Film Workshop in L.A

  Following the success of our previous course, we’re launching a new Process to Practice course with Lior Shamriz. OUTLINE From a TV series starring wild-west robots to artist workshops in self-organized art-spaces comes a demand that we address our current crisis by looking inside – as if consciousness arises simply from within. As a […]

Homage to Bolano and the B96 Dance Party

https://vimeo.com/197145440

Can’t You See All I’ve Got To Do

  https://vimeo.com/191256661