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Jacques Mory-Katmor
Born
Jacques Mory

(1938-09-04)4 September 1938
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Died6 September 2001(2001-09-06) (aged 63)
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Cause of deathAlcoholism
NationalityIsraeli
Occupations
  • Artist
  • Filmmaker
  • Painter
Years active1963–2001
Known forFilmmaking
Notable workA Woman's Case (1969)
StyleArt film
MovementNew Sensitivity [he]
Spouses
  • Hillit Katmor [he] (divorced 1969)
  • Ann Tochmeyer (married 1969–2001; his death)

Jacques Mory-Katmor (Hebrew: ז׳אק מורי־קתמור) (born 4 September 1938 in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt as Jacques Mory; died 6 September 2001 at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel)[1] was an Israeli bohemian/counterculture experimental filmmaker, painter, and multimedia artist of anarchical, underground, and independent leanings.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Biography

Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Cairo, his father was a realtor and tile factory owner, he was nonetheless educated in a Jesuit school, and, upon turning 18, travelled to Paris and Switzerland in order to study art, eventually, in 1960, immigrating to Israel, where, after serving in the Artillery Corps, during the 1960s and 1970s, he gathered around himself a group of artists and intellectuals calling itself "The Third Eye," a commune dedicated to lysergic acid diethylamide and cannabis, which, included, amonst others, filmmakers and artists such as Yael Aviv [he], Amnon Salomon, Daphna Arod [he], Ika Yisraeli [he], and David Greenberg [he]. He considered himself to be strongly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and the Marquis de Sade, and, eventually, changed his last name, on Avoth Yeshurun's suggestion, into a phonetic rendering of Quatre mortes, French for "four deaths." His apartment, located at Dizengoff Street 40 in Tel Aviv, where, eventually, his only film was shot, was a cornerstone of city life during that time. He married translator, model, and editor Hillit Katmor [he], daughter of poet Avoth Yeshurun, while working on his highly avant-garde 1969 film A Woman's Case in which she starred, a time during which he met, and casted into his film, model and it girl Ann Tochmeyer, most famous during that period for appearing on the cover of magazines such as HaOlam HaZeh, which he married after divorcing his wife after he finished the shooting.[9] The film was a commercial failure and hindered his ability to pursue his career as a filmmaker. Some years later, he left Israel for Canada and the United States, and, finally, later, to Amsterdam together with Tochmeyer, returning in 1991. Reportedly, while abroad, they both became addicted to cocaine and heroin while squatting in abject poverty, forcing him to work in pornography and Tochmeyer to work as a stripper.[10][11][12][13][14] Officially, the cause of his death was listed al alcoholism-related.[15]

References

  1. ^ מת במאי הסרטים האוונגרדיסט ז׳אק קתמור [Avant-Garde Filmmaker Jacques Katmor Dies]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. 9 September 2001. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  2. ^ Klein, Uri (30 December 2011). שובו של הגולה הנצחי: על הסרטים של ז'אק קתמור [The Return of the Eternal Pariah: On Jacques Katmor's Films]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  3. ^ Yahav, Galia (13 February 2012). להציג את הילד הרע של האמנות הישראלית [Presenting Israeli Art's Enfant terrible]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  4. ^ Engel, Rachel (23 August 1963). ז׳אק מורי: למה מציגים רישומים [Jacques Mory: Why Are Drawings Presented]. Maariv (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  5. ^ ז׳אק קתמור והעין השלישית / למות לאט [Jacques Katmor and The Third Eye / Slow Death]. Nahum Gutman Museum of Art (in Hebrew). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  6. ^ Barnea, Reut (9 February 2009). רטרוספקטיבה לז׳אק קתמור [A Jacques Katmor Retrospective]. Calcalist (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  7. ^ ז׳. מורי־קתמור בגלריה „כץ” [J. Mory-Katmor at the "Katz" Gallery]. Herut (in Hebrew). Jerusalem. 22 April 1965. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  8. ^ Kesari, Uri (12 December 1969). מקרה גבר [A Man's Case]. Maariv (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  9. ^ Slavick, Jean (30 October 1969). הערב עם ז׳אק מורי־קתמור [Tonight with Jacques Mory-Katmor]. Davar (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  10. ^ Anderman, Nirit (30 December 2011). מקרה איש: עשר שנים למותו של ז'אק קתמור [A Man's Case: A Decade Since Jacques Katmor's Death]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  11. ^ Davis, Barry (13 January 2012). "Keeping an Eye Open". The Jerusalem Post. Jerusalem. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  12. ^ Sharpe, Zoe (24 March 2014). "Jacques Katmor". Sang Bleu. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  13. ^ Sélavy, Virginie; Shani, Tal (24 November 2016). "Reopening the Third Eye". British Film Institute. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  14. ^ Grossman, Hagit (22 March 2012). הוזה אל האינסוף [Hallucinating Infinitely]. Makor Rishon (in Hebrew). Jerusalem. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  15. ^ Frosh, Tahel (17 August 2009). ז׳אק קתמור, מקרה גבר [Jacques Katmor, a Man's Case]. Ha'ir (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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