A Low Life Mythology

Saturn Returns

Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.

Cancelled Faces

Korea, the now: A young man makes a fateful encounter with a stranger he passionately falls in love with. When Unk rides his scooter through the night he fails to notice a drunk pedestrian, a man called Boaz, and hits him. The accident has unforeseen repercussions since shortly afterwards Unk and Boaz start an intense relationship that leads into a gradually worsening dependency.

Japan Japan

The film tells the story of Imri, 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 person’s life. An exploration of living in the exotic city of Tel Aviv is presented through a hero who are themselves 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 them. The movie was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene. (Source: Filmmaker Website)

The Cage

After being framed in a murder, Nick returns to his troubled hometown Exalon, where he begins an affair with a young man working at a family restaurant.

Ho! Terrible Exteriors

An attempt to combine two different types of movies. One is the poetic and erotic journey of an urban couple trying to reconnect with nature. The other is a shallow comedy about a love triangle in Tel Aviv.

Mirrors for Princes

A psychedelic life story of an immigrant from a village to the city and his son - an art student making videos.

L'amour sauvage

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

The Night

The cheap white sport socks of the man in front of me on the cue to Aldi’s cashier, reminded me of you. Edited from recycled materials that were originally filmed for music-videos for the band Kreidler, this short film premiered at the Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage 2015.

Fetish Puppies Break Free!

In 1934 Berlin, a Black Jew who is married to a White German is visited by a friend who urges him to flee the country. A screening of a German expressionistic film about a horny Golem resurrected by Mark Zuckerberg is disrupted by a visit of a man from the future.

Fallen Blossoms

About two men. Lovers, but not in love. Heroes of three episodes in different times and places. In 1978 southern California they escape the city to go and enjoy themselves in a motel; in contemporary L.A they put up a play in a gentrifying neighborhood in the eastern part of town; and in the third episode, filmed in late 2014, taking place in an undefined place, they are victims of a terror attack on a nightclub.

Estuaries

After the death of his partner, Eli turns to the recently deceased’s artist friends for a hand with his immigration, but some of them have ulterior motives.

Albania

A short movie about three girls.

Even a Dog in Babylon Is Free

Inspired by a letter written in the 7th century BC by the Babylonians to the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, in which they demand equal rights to the foreigners in their city, a radical staging of debates, doubts and solidarity arises.

Port Saïd, Santa Cruz, Sarmad Kashani

A triptych about projections on bodies, made by projecting on my body.

Beyond Love and Companionship

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

The Runaway Troupe of the Cartesian Theater

A person of undefined gender and ethnicity is sent by a German cultural institution to a city in China, where s/he experiences a cruel conspiracy against her/his loved one.