An experimental absurd pathos film.

A father and a son strive to pave a path in a darkness set by dead people and dead cultures.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.Mirrors-For-Princes.com

With Horst Günter Marx, Imri Kahn, Hayedeh
Cinematography: David Schmitt. Production Design: Ole Kloss
Sountrack: V. Silverstrov, G. Moustraki, Hayedeh.
Soundtrack Design: Assaf Gidron

Torino Film Festival.

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An intellectual burlesque, A LOW LIFE MYTHOLOGY is a love story taking place in Berlin, of two young video-artists who pursue a place in the world, but fail to “live in the moment” as their sense of reality is mediated by their films.

With Nina Fog, Johannes Hendrik Langer. Written&Directed by Lior Shamriz

Supported by the “MedienBoard Berlin Brandenburg” & “Bambi Foundation”

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.A-LOW-LIFE-MYTHOLOGY.com

60th Locarno Film Festival
NewDirectors/NewFilms – MoMA & LincolnCentre,
Sarajevo Film Fest, Nouveau Cinema Montreal,
‘Best Film’ – Mexico Intl Film Week 2008
Frameline San Francisco, BAFICI, London BFI G&L FF and ca. 40 other international film festivals

The 2007 OFFICIAL WEBSITE IS AT:
http://www.jehuti.com/japanjapan

The story of Imri (portrayed by Imri Kahn), who at 19 goes to live in Tel- Aviv, but dreams of moving to Japan.
Through his relationships and encounters and in diverse cinematic tools, we are introduced to the young man’s life. An exploration of living in the exotic city of Tel Aviv is presented through a hero who is himself in the midst of exploring his own choice of an exotic place. A unique correlation is formed between the hero’s misconception of Japan and ours of him.

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
www.SaturnReturnsFilm.com

Torino Film Festival – Onde – Opening Film
Max Ophüls Preis Nomination, ”New Berlin Award” – Best Film –  Achtung Berlin Film Festival, Las Palmas Film Festival Competition, TLV Fest, Insko Summer Fest, Thessaloniki Feature Film Tributes

A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama. Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, carried by the promise of a better, cleaner way of living.

Written and Produced by Imri Kahn, Lior Shamriz. Directd by Lior Shamriz
With Tal Meiri, Chloe Griffin, Joshua Bogle

This short experimental work, led mainly by dialogues, tells the story of an encounter between three old friends. The aim was to create an unusual emotional effect by constructing a realistic picture after a much darker sountrack which was prepared prior to shooting.

Directed by Lior Shamriz
Participating: Alessio Bonaccorsi, Irene von Alberti, Stephan Geene, Arantxa Martinez
Assistant Director: Imri Kahn, Uri Eilam
The title of the film is taken from a title of a poem by Gertrude Stein, suggested by Imri Kahn

Kunstfilmbiennale Köln, Rencontres Paris-Berlin, Stuttgarter Filmwinter

“Ho! Terrible Exteriors” is an attempt to make a hybrid between two totally different kinds of films. One is the poetic, orientalist and erotic archytype of an urban couple that tries to reconnect with nature. The other is a shallow urban comedy about a love triangle in Tel Aviv. The film is a story of young people who don’t know how to live, who try to revive values that lost their meaning, values like romance, nature and also cinema, as a meaning generator.

Written and Directed by Lior Shamriz
Participating: Tal Meiri, Moti Brecher, Tal Shiff, Imri Kahn, Shira Ben-Zeev, Snir Shalev, Ariel Kleiner
Cinematography: David Rodoy
Edit: Anat Maltz

This initiation was a collaboration between the filmmaker and the Tel-Aviv based street theatre group Zaza. The result was conceived through a process of rehearsals and improvisations over a script that was written by the filmmaker especially for the group. The shooting took place during two days in a house in Jafa in March 2006. The exteriors were shot in Jafa and south Tel Aviv during two days in March and April 2006.
Written and directed by Lior Shamriz
Pariticipating: Meiri Zarmi, Sharon Danon, Matan Yaniv, Kobi Ohayun, Tamara Levinson, Edo Frenkel and Roni Vidman. Also participated Kathy Trifonov whose English voice-over was recorded by Chloe Griffin.

Directed by Lior Shamriz
with Carola Regnier, Imri Kahn
Assistant Director: Alessio Bonaccorsi

Kunstfilmbiennale Köln – BILD-KUNST Prize Nomination
FrikFestival Skopje, KW Institute Berlin – Kunstfilmbiennale Highlights.

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Saturn Returns’ Satellite Films are three films created by Lior Shamriz around his 2009 fiction motion-picture.

RETURN RETURN is a mashup between an audiotext work by Caroline Bergvall, “VIA (48 Dante Translations)”, and a slowed-down version of the trailer to the feature-length fiction film “Saturn Returns”. 26 minutes long, it is comprised of only one digested minute of footage from the original film, accompanying the story’s three main performers: Tal Meiri, Chloe Griffin and Joshua Bogle. The secondary medium – the trailer – becomes the only source.

RITENUTO is a slowed down clip of a dream scene from the film “Saturn Returns” (one minute slowed down to 63 minutes), accompanied by a soundtrack of a mixtape with pop songs and some classical music pieces.

In TITAN, Imri Kahn reads two chapters from Kurt Vonnegut’s “The Sirens of Titan”: IN A HOLLYWOOD NIGHTCLUB, A PUZZLE SOLVED.
Accompanying his reading are internet-available images from the satellite and its planet Saturn.

A cycle of 6 short movies, one documentary and the rest fiction, investigating boundaries between fiction and reality, ‘acting’ and ‘being’, while telling short-stories of young people that are busy uncovering the glamor of the low-fi.

”New Order Low Life”, ”The Prince”, ”Return to the Savanna”, ”Look Who I Brought Home”, ”Infantile”, ”Hand”.

Written and Directed by Lior Shamriz
Participating: Imri Kahn, Tal Meiri,
Moti Brecher, Tal Shiff and more

Drawing by Imri Kahn