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POP 70 (1970), POP STAR 71 (1972), ISRAEL - JACQUES MORY KATMOR
Segments of the first pop promos made in Israel, including documentation of the local Israel psychedelic garage scene, bands made of immigrants from Arab countries and Eastern Europe that recently settled in Israel. Bands include The Churchills, The Spiders and more
Produced by The 3rd Eye Group.
THE JOURNEY (1971), ISRAEL - JACQUES MORY KATMOR 10MINS
A poetic, abstract journey through Yosl Bergner's paintings, a surrealistic Israeli painter that combined Jewish motifs and personal symbolism. The camera wanders and cinematic editing create a new order, a new context for Bergner’s paintings.
Produced by The 3rd Eye Group.
THE HOLE (1972-1974), ISRAEL - JACQUES MORY KATMOR 15MINS
The film predicts the Yom Kippur War (1973) with members of the group testifying that already a year before the war broke you could feel disaster in the air. Katmor and the other members of the group refused to fight in the war. Based on a story by Bernard Melamud, in the film Katmor self-directs a funeral, burying himself alive in a secular ritual conducted under the influence of LSD. Katmor creates a Kabbalistic-psychedelia inside a theological model built on symbolic thought. Autonomous camera movements create a triangle within which the film is conducted.
Produced by The 3rd Eye Group.
SIGN (1974, ISRAEL - JACQUES MORY KATMOR 25MINS
A dark, cosmic film, an apocalyptic vision, Katmor documents a filmed journey through the world of images of Russian painter, Michail Grobman. Grobman belongs to second Russian avant-garde movement, Grobman painted heavy symbolist paintings, with Kabbalistic magic imagery drawn from Jewish legends and folklore. Soundtrack by Faust.
A WOMAN’S CASE (1969), ISRAEL – JACQUES MORY KATMOR
A landmark in Israeli cinema: one of the first avant-garde experiments, ‘A woman’s Case’ proposes woman as metaphor, the film occupies three levels: a feature documentary collage, a cinematic essay laden with references to history of art, literature and pop culture and an experiment to translate drawing into film.
An advertising man meets a model in the studio of sculptor, they embark on a journey together – for one day – through different spaces in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: A hotel, a stairway, an apartment, streets, a cafe, a restaurant, a nightclub a collaged space connecting pop culture, Surrealism, death, eroticism and violence. The film’s soundtrack was written by ‘The Churchills’ a seminal Israeli psychedelic garage band.
This film represented Israel for the first time in 1969 at The Venice Film Festival.
Part of
JACQUES KATMOR & THE 3RD EYE GROUP ISRAELI COUNTER CULTURE 1964 – 1975
Part of '20 Horse Years', a programme celebrating The Horse Hospital's 20th anniversary For more information click here
