Jan 24, 2007

Beautiful Tamarhindi \ جميلة تمر هندي \ (undone film)


A film proposal by Nimrod Kamer (2005 pitching attempt), sequal to Nimrod Kamer and Yuval Zuker's short film "Beautiful Tamar" (Tel Aviv 2005), [website].

Brief Synopsis:

Zuker and Nimrod, two Israelis, arrive to Amman from Tel Aviv in order to escape the exhausting Jewish holidays. In a local Carob juice-shop, downtown Amman, they meet Tamarhindi and fall in love with her at once.
Together the three embark on a triangular hang-out journey throughout Amman’s scenery's and night life, vividly exploring new frontiers, restraint, and awareness, in this Israeli-Jordanian, yet totally Arab - love story.

Final length: 80 minutes \ 35mm \ Color \
Language: 95% Arabic (with Hebrew and English subtitles)
Director & Writer: Nimrod Kamer (Israel)
Producer: ?
Cinema-Photographer: (Israel) \ ?
Cast: Nimrod Kamer \ Yuval Zuker \ Jordanian Girl (still to be decided)
Editing: In a Jordanian film studio (still to be decided)

Casting & Location Touring Time: 1 week
Rehearsals Time: 5 days of learning Zuker & Nimrod how to say their lines in Arabic.
Shooting Time: 1 week (Amman only) - exact dates still to be decided.
Editing Time: 3.5 weeks
Total working time: 5.9 weeks



Downtown Amman, set for "Beautiful Tamarhindi".


Beautiful Tamarhindi \ A rough scene description

scene 01
Zuker and Nimrod are on the back sit of a Jordanian taxi. They are on their way to Amman. They are impressed by the scenery's and try to explain to the taxi driver that they are originally from Romania (Nimrod) and Poland (Zuker), and not form Israel. The driver, convinced that they are Israelis, is driving very fast and constantly testing their national knowledge of Romania & Poland.
When the taxi reaches Amman center it appears to Nimrod and Zuker that they have only shekels (the Israeli currency) and the driver is willing to exchange it to Jordan dinar only if they admit that they are Israelis after all.


scene 02
Zuker and Nimrod are on the main street of downtown Amman. They buy galabiyas and then enter a juice stand. The juice stand owner is very nice and has a photo of his father and of king Abdullah on the wall. Zuker is ordering a Carob drink and Nimrod orders a Tamar-Hindi drink. They drink from each other’s glasses in order to taste both flavors.
An the corner of the shop appears to sit a beautiful girl, drinking some other kind of flavor. Nimrod asks her (in Arabic) for her name, and she answers him - “Tamarhindi”. She then asks Nimrod of the name of his friend Zuker, Nimrod tells her the name, and Tamarindi makes fun of it, telling an Arab joke about it. Zuker is baffled and confused by the joke.



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For full synopsis of the planned film: [pdf].

Jan 18, 2007

new: MAAYAN vol.3, MAARVON vol.2


A new vol. of "Maayan" - Poetry Magazine and "Maarvon" film magazine are now out in Tel Aviv.

MAARVON - Edited by Joshua Simon [1] and coordinated by Nimrod Kamer is now the only film journal in Israel.

Maayan and Maarvon website:
www.maayanmagazine.com

On wiki:

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* Photo above (Maayan Magazine back cover) by Lydia Lymbourides, Zürich , 2005.

Jan 14, 2007

Nimrod Kamer's Grandfather Frantzisk "Phishi" Deutsch photoroll


1953, originally uploaded by Nimrod Kamer.

A collection of photos now available on the Nimrod Kamer flickr -
http://flickr.com/photos/nnimrodd.

Jan 5, 2007

Night In Ashdod \ documentary video \ 1:32 hours \



Shot in Ashdod*, Israel, July 2006, a city in which the ratio of women to men is 1,046 to 1,000. A group of three party-goers from Tel Aviv come to experience and enjoy the local night life and people.

The three are: Nimrod Kamer (25, A journalist and a junior high school teacher), Roy 'Chicky' Arad (29, A poet and a TV script writer) and lovely Dana Guidetti (a Julie Andrews style IBM worker and local Tel Avivan debutante).

As Kamer takes the camera most of time and Dana drives the car the three are able to reach out the sexiest most desirable locations in Ashdod: A Beach Car-Pool party, 4 of the hottest clubs, most beautiful Ashdodian dancers and - A fancy fish restaurant.

This is a documentary - and takes an hour and half, as no essential parts were cut from the almost real and original time of the night.

The video is a part of The Middle East Night Life Serious by Nimrod Kamer and Roy Arad. Other episodes: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=night+chicky+nimrod.

*Ashdod in wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashdod.

Jan 2, 2007

The Tel Aviv Post Massacre

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tel Aviv Post Massacre (in Hebrew: טבח הדואר של תל אביב) is an attempt to make a first full length Zionist horror picture show in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel according to the "Avriri Manifesto" [1] and as a soft remake of the American genre establishing film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). The project creator was Nimrod Kamer.
The film is an attempt, since it was never completed. It was due to be screened in the Israeli complex of "Cinema-City" in the summer of 2006. Only one shooting day had taken place, but the "film" got enormous treatment by Israeli press and cinema societies. A short story was also published depicting the process of it's script writing and production. A story on the director Nimrod Kamer was broad-casted on Israeli TV on february 2006, comparing him to Peter Jackson.

External Links
The Tel Aviv Post Massacre website (Hebrew)
"The Tel Aviv Post Massacre - an Avriri film in production" - A news coverage from Israel's HOT3 channel. (Hebrew)
Behind the scenes video and video clip from film (English)
"When Madeleine Stowe Cries: Short Stories on Cinema" a cinema related story book published in 2007, including the fictional story "From The Production Of An Israeli Horror Movie" by Nimrod Kamer. Direct link: [2].

Categories: 2006 films Unfinished films Slasher films Texas Chainsaw Massacre Israeli films Israeli culture


video 1 - behind the scenes of the 2nd murder scene + editing attempt
video 2 - behind the scenes of the 1st murder scene and the chase through Raines St.