Edgar Schmitt in Quarantine – Music on Bandcamp

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

Two Short Films By Lior Shamriz
Sunday March 15 2020
Echo Park Film Center,  1200 N Alvarado St, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Doors 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 mind, he sits with his partner to watch a film about a resurrected Golem in futuristic San Francisco. The screening is interrupted by a time traveller.
With Jordan Green, Chelsea Reactor, Laura Stinger, Paul Outlaw, Marval Rex, Oscar Alvarez, K Bradford, Prima Sakuntabhai, Alessio Bonnacorsi and Neha Choksi. Camera by Lior Shamriz and Cary Cronenwett.Filmed at the Tom of Finland House in Los Angeles. Produced by spektakulativ pictures

2. L’AMOUR SAUVAGE (2014) 25 minutes. Los Angeles Premiere. 
Lost love, lost artistic collaboration, the two are meeting for one night as she briefly visits the city where he still lives.
Starring Alessio Bonnacorsi and Chloé Griffin. Filmed in Belin-Brandenburg. Co-produced by Cailleau-Slak & Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion. Premiered at the Oberhausen Festival, where it received an honorable mention. Toured with Oberhausen’s special program over 30 cities worldwide.

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 draconian labor practices, mechanized economies and geopolitical border tensions. With videos by Cana Bilir-Meier, Guillaume Cailleau, Crystal Z Campbell, Neha Choksi, Matthew Lax, Young Joo Lee, Lior Shamriz.

http://drawingcenter.org

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-screening-open-sessions-16-wasteland-tickets-81850965441

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.

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 conquer the world.

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 themes relevant to our current challenges. THE BODY IS A CAGE, THE BODY IS CAGED accompanies bodies that move—and fail to move—through the human grid, from borders to cultural mythologies of gender and class. The body is the “I”-Object, our degraded camera-obscura. Anna Zett investigates how dinosaurs came to play a pivotal role in the mythical imagination of the US, whereas Matthew Lax ironically stages what our zeitgeist dictates to be the new kind of body, the computer-generated one, a byproduct of the global hi-tech industry. Cary Cronenwett laments the death of a soulmate who dreamt of pirates navigating through gender. Jaakko Palasvuo addresses a tourist in Milan, while my characters are immigrants in Berlin with a broken sense of home. Forough Farrokhzad documents people in a leper colony, prevented from transitioning back to society. Heinz Emigholz films Robert Maillart’s beamless arched bridges as Neha Choksi crosses water on a boat of melting ice.                       – (Lior Shamriz)

Film Program – 1

THIS UNWIELDY OBJECT (2014)  Anna Zett 47 minutes

The animated dinosaurs of Hollywood cinema meet the petrified ghosts of colonial science. Dig sites become crime scenes, and fossils turn into characters, determined to play a main part in the mythical history of the US-American West.

BEYOND LOVE AND COMPANIONSHIP (2012)  Lior Shamriz 18 minutes

Eleanor, an Israeli experimental musician living in Berlin (“I think that Germany is responsible for 9/11”), discovers what ruins her life.

Film Program – 2

BRUNT DRAMA (2018) Matthew Lax 7 minutes

Androgynous figures struggle to execute various labors within a bleak, vacuous  monoculture. Addressing the inherent violence of the real and the simulated, as  well as the dubious pleasure of witnessing, narratives of safety, risk  and use-value are tested via 3D-rendered, plastic surrogates.

CIRCUIT TRAINING (2015) Anna Zett 13 minutes

Circuit Training dedicates 12 minutes of screen time to a nameless deity of secular culture, alternating between states of rest and attention. In the boxing ring – a square in fact – monologue is promised to turn into dialogue, despite the vulnerable materiality of the human nervous system.

BLADDER (2018) Jaakko Pallasvuo 9 minutes

An essay film exploring transitory embarrassment, travel and independence.

FOR FLO (2013) Cary Cronenwett 11 minutes

A requiem by transgender filmmaker Cary Cronenwett to his late friend and collaborator Flo who died at the Haiti earthquake of 2010.

ICEBOAT (2013) Neha Choksi 13 minutes

Iceboat is a video of a performance in February 2012. The artist dresses in white, as if a renunciate or a devotee, and sets herself to row a boat of ice until the boat melts and releases her into the waters.

Film Program – 3

L’AMOUR SAUVAGE (2015) Lior Shamriz 25 minutes

Lost love, lost artistic collaboration, the two are meeting for one night as she briefly visits the city where he still lives.

THE HOUSE IS BLACK (1963) Forough Farrokhzad 22 minutes

A 1963 short documentary by poetess Forough Farrokhzad, looking at life and suffering in a leper colony.

MAILLART BRIDGES (2001) Heinz Emigholz 24 minutes

In this captivating and informative documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz continues his exploration of architecture as autobiography by examining the work of legendary bridge-builder Robert Maillart, who revolutionized concrete based construction.

Download as PDF 

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 to contact[at]spektakulativ.com

Please forward to whomever might be interested.

http://blog.spektakulativ.com/2018/07/19/call-for-actors-los-angeles/

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” – as an individual experience and as a shared, common ground, and the function of that common ground as a tool within civil society.

Performers and film makers are invited to explore methods for creating the “illusion of the real” with film director and artist Lior Shamriz. THE PRESENT is a workshop for those who want feedback on a long term project in an intimate setting and also for those who desire to make a new project within the class. Collaboration is invited among participants but not expected. We will examine examples from film history and visual culture, experiment together in class and work on individual projects.

Lior Shamriz was born in Ashkelon on the East Mediterranean, lived a decade in Berlin and is now based in Los Angeles. They create essayistic narrations that utilize cinema as performance and the cinematic languages as a process of reflexive documentation. Their work was presented at over a hundred international film festivals, including the Berlin Film Festival (2010, 2013, 2015), Locarno, Torino, Frameline, venues such as MoMA NY, awarded prizes at the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (2013, 2014, 2015).

Saturdays – July 7-14-21-28, from 1pm till 4:30p

RSVP to contact@spektakulativ.com. Suggested price $70-110 for the whole month (4 meetings)

PAM Residencies. 5810, 1/2 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90042

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 27, 2018 at 9:46pm PDT

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 project Shamriz’s film MIRRORS FOR PRINCES within the gallery.

Meditating on the meaning of territory, nationhood and the trauma of the self, Shamriz re-imagines a 5th century Corduene (Modern day Syria/Kurdistan) religious site for healing and appropriates it for contemporary setting within an art gallery. Through a story of a 5th century massacre and a specific designated “game” rules, setting the installation in Los Angeles allows us to bring to light questions on the relationship between the American White diaspora with its ancestral Europe, in particular within the art community.

The site was first set up in Seoul in spring 2017.

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 the artist’s idiosyncretic cinematic language that often combines these two contradictory elements within the framework of a performative experience. It alludes to very contemporary concerns as travel bans, globalization and surveillance at the same time that it conveys a timeless spiritual simplicity. In an act of somewhat defiance against a current zeitgeist, to experience the site’s spiritual property the visitor is obliged to avoid witnesses and the truthful sharing of his experience. The only permitted and possible account of the visit is a false one. In addition, a set of three rules determines who is eligible to enter the territory – a person who hadn’t committed murder in the last three years, physical assault in the last month and who hasn’t been in the area of the Western Roman Empire.

Read the story behind the installation and its special set of rules here.

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 starting point for the class we assert that this notion of consciousness is an unfortunate vintage, faux-transgressive falsehood. Instead, we will explore an integrative and relational approach to examine the following chain as an algorithmic social building block.

{ viewer → screen → camera → performer → object }

In short, this class, composed of actors, performers, visual artists, writers and directors – will focus on looking and being looked at – performers and camera.

A greater chunk of the time will be given to experimenting with filming in class and there will be opportunities for participants to share works in progress for feedback. During these 8 weeks, outside of class, Shamriz will be filming a new project – “The Recursive Stage” and will share some of that experience with the class.

See attached PDF for full syllabus: http://spektakulativ.com/pdf/Shamriz.PAM-workshop-W16-syllabus.pdf

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

Video

I’ve made this short video with an excerpt from The Cage, a reading by Adrienne Rich and music by Stepancic Gidron.

http://vimeo.com/180463775

CANCELLED FACES on iTunes

Get the CANCELLED FACES soundtrack from iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cancelled-faces-original-score/id1097979753

THE CAGE – director statement

I wrote a short director statement for THE CAGE. The text is here.

BEYOND LOVE AND COMPANIONSHIP on ZDF

August 30.

http://www.tvspielfilm.de/tv-programm/sendung/beyond-love-and-companionship,578dc70ef033af73a2ba556c.html

Fallen Blossoms director statement

I wrote a short text to give some information about the unique production of my film Fallen Blossoms.

You can read it here

Film/Performance Workshop at PAM Los Angeles

Homepage

PROCESS TO PRACTICE
intensive workshops for performance works in progress at PAM

Eight 3-hour classes over four weekends 12-3 each day
$70-100 sliding scale
Limited to 8 participants
reply to this address

P2P #1: MIRROR
A Meditation on the Construction of the Real
with Lior Shamriz

Film director and artist Lior Shamriz leads a 4-week intensive workshop expanding the realm of performance for the camera. This workshop—the first in our series—will be using the live process of recording as means to create a framework for extended representation.

The task of constructing representations of the “real” within live performance for the camera confronts us, as directors and performers with questions about our desires and expectations of how the real should look, sound and feel. Performers and film makers are invited to explore methods for creating the “illusion of the real” with film director and artist Lior Shamriz. MIRROR is a workshop for those who want feedback on a long term project in an intimate setting and also for those who desire to make a new project within the class. Collaboration is invited among participants but not expected.

CURRICULUM
8/27 & 8/28: Introduction & Sources: Theory, History and Experiments
9/3 & 9/4: Door: Performer & Personae, Initiation, Conceptualizing, Language Materials
9/10 & 9/11: Timelessness Against the Scenery: Action, Film, Performativity, Acting
9/17 & 9/18: Editing: Framing & Re-Framing a Mirage

12-3 each day

Endless Sarraghina

I wanted to make this loop for a long time, maybe a decade, but never did, until last Wednesday. It’s an hour long loop of Saraghina’s Rumba scene in Fellini’s 8 1/2.

Fallen Blossoms drive

R.I.P Rautavaara.

This is a loop I used at an open performance at PAM Los Angeles as part of the Fallen Blossoms film project, to the sound of E Rautavaara’s Symphony 8 – “The Journey”: