Lior Shamriz

Lior Shamriz ( Hebrew ליאור שמריז; * September 13, 1978 in Ashkelon ) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He currently lives in Berlin.

Life

Growing up in Ashkelon in an Arab-Jewish family, he moved to Tel Aviv at the age of 18 . There he began to make films and music and to participate in collective art projects. From 2002 to 2004 he studied at the Jerusalem Film School and from 2006 to 2009 experimental media at the Institute for Time-Based Media at the Berlin University of the Arts . During this time he made about 20 films of various lengths and formats.

A prolific filmmaker, churning out experimental shorts and two features, Lior Shamriz channels the cheater spirit of the 60s auteurs in his cinema of humorous / political deconstruction. He uses the cinema as the perfect place to discuss ideas - about being, truth, class, sexuality and others.

His medium-length feature film Japan Japan (2006/7), produced independently and on a micro-budget, has been shown at around 50 international film festivals, including the Locarno and Sarajevo film festivals and MoMa 'New Directors / NewFilms, and was awarded the Grand Prix of “Mexico Film Week” honored. It was also named one of the Top 10 Films of the Year by MoMA Chief Curator.

His feature film Saturn Returns (2009), which tells of a relationship between two women in Berlin, was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and was the opening film of the 30th Torino Film Festival Onde. In 2010 he was honored with the “New Berlin Award” from the “Achtung Berlin Film Festival”. Return Return (2010), an experimental film that contains scenes from Saturn Returns from slow motion , won a prize at the Berlinale 's “Forum Expanded”. At the same time as his feature films, he also realizes shorter, more experimental film projects and music.

Movies

• 2006: Ho! Terrible Exteriors (screenplay, director)
• 2007: Japan Japan (screenplay, director)
• 2008: The Magic Desk (writer, director)
• 2009: Saturn Returns (screenplay, director)
• 2010: Mirrors For Princes (Writer, Director)
• 2012: A Low Life Mythology (Writer, Director)
• 2012: Beyond Love and Companionship (screenplay, director)
• 2014: L'Amour sauvage (screenplay, director)
• 2015: Canceled Faces (screenplay, director)

Web links

• Lior Shamriz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Lior Shamriz at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Star and Shadow . Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 21, 2011. 
2. ^ MoMA Calendar . MoMA NYC. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
3. ↑ indieWIRE & Industry Top 10s for 2008 . Indiewire. Retrieved January 4, 2009.
4. ↑ Berlin Film Festival 2010 Program (PDF; 349 kB) Retrieved on August 21, 2011.