The Sirens, written and directed by Mor Shamay and produced by Director of Photography Lucky Cheng, is an upcoming short about a couple in a cold and passionless marriage who seeks respite through a weekend on the scenic beachfront. When the wife's younger sister appears unexpectedly, desires blossom, all the while the worlds of fantasy and reality merge.
(Photos: Victor Trejo, Brendan Poutier, Lucky Cheng)
A 2012 portrait short film by Mor Shamay about alcohol addiction, inspired by a poem of Raymond Carver. The story is split between childhood experimentation in the late 1970‘s and the life of that adult alcoholic today. The film also explores the disease’s harmful effects on family and social life.
Director of Photography: Pablo Archuschin.
Starring: Jonathan shamay, Zeev Peled and Yiftach Kaminer.
Production Design: Mor Shamay
(Photos: Nathan Kummel and Rubens Ben)
“Luck” by Raymond Carver
I was nine years old.
I had been around liquor
all my life. My friends
drank too, but they could handle it.
We'd take cigarettes, beer,
a couple of girls
and go out to the fort.
We'd act silly.
Sometimes you'd pretend
to pass out so the girls
could examine you.
They'd put their hands
down your pants while
you lay there trying
not to laugh, or else
they would lean back,
close their eyes, and
let you feel them all over.
Once at a party my dad
came to the back porch
to take a leak.
We could hear voices
over the record player
see people standing around
laughing and drinking.
When my dad finished
he zipped up, stared a while
at the starry sky--it was
always starry then
on summer nights--
and went back inside.
The girls had to go home.
I slept all night in the fort
with my best friend.
We kissed on the lips
and touched each other.
I saw the stars fade
toward morning.
I saw a woman sleeping
on our lawn.
I looked up her dress,
then I had a beer
and a cigarette.
Friends, I thought this
was living.
Indoors, someone
had put out a cigarette
in a jar of mustard.
I had a straight shot
from the bottle, then
a drink of warm collins mix,
then another whisky.
And though I went from room
to room, no one was home.
What luck, I thought.
Years later,
I still wanted to give up
friends, love, starry skies,
for a house where no one
was home, no one coming back,
and all I could drink.
'Valentine' is a handmade shadow puppet theatre based on a poem by Ernest Hemingway.
Music by Chet Baker 'My Funny Valentine'.
A short film based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway.
SVA, Class of 2014.
Shot with Arriflex-S 16mm camera on black and white reversal film stock.
Starring: Lisa Golub and Jordan Shoval.
Lighting: Meghan Trice
'Fish & Owl'
Written and directed by Mor Shamay, Shot by Lucky Cheng on Super 16mm.
Starring: Kerry Vaughn Miller and Morgan Weed.
Sound by Louis Hernandez.
'One Minute'
Directed by William Henry and Mor Shamay
Shot by Lucky Cheng on Super 8 .
Starring: Kerry Vaughn Miller and Robert Wilde.
A short film written and directed by Mor Shamay.
Director of Photography: Eitan Gamlieli
(Photos: Nicholas Bedo)