Jacques Katmor

• Name — Jacques Mory-Katmor • Native Name — ז׳אק מורי־קתמור • Birthplace — Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt • Born — 4 September 1938 • Died — 6 September 2001 • Place of death — Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel • Education — École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts • Occupation — *Artist • Filmmaker • Painter • Soldier • Movement — New Sensitivity • Spouse — * (born in Tel Aviv, Jaffa Subdistrict, Lydda District, Mandatory Palestine on 2 April 1942) • (born in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union on 2 May 1948; died in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands on 28 May 2004) • Years Active — 1963–2001 • Notable Works — A Woman's Case 1969 • Known for — Filmmaking • Style — Art film

Jacques Mory was born into a wealthy, Jewish, family in Cairo. His father was a realtor and tile factory owner. He attended a Jesuit school. Upon turning 18, he travelled to Paris and Switzerland to study art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1960, he immigrated to Israel. He served in the Artillery Corps, taking part in the Six-Day War.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he organized a group of artists and intellectuals who called themselves "The Third Eye," a commune dedicated to the ideas of Timothy Leary. He claimed to be strongly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and the Marquis de Sade. At Avoth Yeshurun's suggestion, he turned his last name into a phonetic rendering of quatre mortes, French for "four deaths." His apartment on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, where his only film was shot, was a hub of city life during that time. He married translator, model, and, editor Helit Yeshurun, daughter of poet Avoth Yeshurun, while working on his avant-garde 1969 film A Woman's Case. He met Ann Tochmeyer during that period. She was a model who appeared on the covers of magazines such as HaOlam HaZeh. She appeared in his film and he married her after his divorce from Yeshurun. The film was a commercial failure, and, hindered his ability to pursue his career as a filmmaker. Other works included creating television programs showcasing the works of artists such as Moshe Gershuni, Yosl Bergner (1971), Yaacov Agam (1973), and, Michail Grobman (1974). Around 1974, he left Israel for Cambodia, Canada, and, Thailand, with Tochmeyer leaving for San Francisco, and, finally, later, around 1975, for Amsterdam, together with Tochmeyer, returning in 1991. Reportedly, while abroad, they both became addicted to cocaine and heroin, while, in poverty, amongst Amsterdam squatters, forcing him to work in, and, with Tochmeyer, to work as a stripper. Together with artists as Buki, they managed to survive. Buki Greenberg. At a certain stage Jacques and Ann were relocated to Israel. Officially, the cause of his death in Israel was listed as alcoholism-related.