
Awards
UK Student Award 2020 - Encounters Film Festival
Vimeo Staff Pick
Festival Screenings
2022 Animix Tel Aviv
2021 Artisitic Movement Tel Aviv
2021 Pictoplasma Berlin
2021 Kyiv International Short Film Festival
2021 Vienna Shorts
2021 British Shorts
2021 Flatpack Festival
2021 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival
2021 Anifilm Festival
2021 London Short Film Festival
2020 Encounters Film Festival
2020 London International Animation Festival
2020 GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation
Press
It’s Nice That
Creative Review
Short Of The Week
Stash
Portfolio (Hebrew)
Bigumigu (Turkish)
Elemmental, (Spanish)
Girls In Film
LUX24 (Portuguese)

Statement
In an overwhelming and chaotic world it seems like the only way to live through it is disconnecting ourselves emotionally. We are lost, detached, and we have replaced our intuition and inner truth with external sources that give us the sense and order: Are you having an anxiety attack? It’s probably because Mercury is in retrograde. Afraid of leaving your house and catching Coronavirus? It’s because your moon is in cancer. Tarot readings, psychics, acupuncture, rituals - there are so many places we can go to when we seek answers. We got to the point that we can’t make any decisions, and we don’t trust ourselves anymore.
Mercury's Retrograde is an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper, tragic truth of our generation.
In an overwhelming and chaotic world it seems like the only way to live through it is disconnecting ourselves emotionally. We are lost, detached, and we have replaced our intuition and inner truth with external sources that give us the sense and order: Are you having an anxiety attack? It’s probably because Mercury is in retrograde. Afraid of leaving your house and catching Coronavirus? It’s because your moon is in cancer. Tarot readings, psychics, acupuncture, rituals - there are so many places we can go to when we seek answers. We got to the point that we can’t make any decisions, and we don’t trust ourselves anymore.
Mercury's Retrograde is an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper, tragic truth of our generation.

What is Mercury’s Retrograde?
Deriving from a research on Carl Jung's theory of the archetypes of the collective Unconscious, Mercury's Retrograde is a satire about a never ending quest towards self realisation, self improvement, and life's answers.

Synopsis
A millennial is relying on her magic 8-ball to make sense of a chaotic life. Her non stopping questions cause her to fall through the sofa into her unconsciousness. When realising her 8-ball disappeared, she sets out on a journey to find it, encountering different aspects of herself. A satire about a never ending quest towards self realisation, self improvement, and life’s answers.
A millennial is relying on her magic 8-ball to make sense of a chaotic life. Her non stopping questions cause her to fall through the sofa into her unconsciousness. When realising her 8-ball disappeared, she sets out on a journey to find it, encountering different aspects of herself. A satire about a never ending quest towards self realisation, self improvement, and life’s answers.

Theory: The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Jung discovered that specific symbolic themes exist in all cultures and civilisations, all epochs, and in every individual. Together these symbolic themes comprise the archetypes of the collective Unconscious and represent the essential elements of the eternal truths in myths. According to Jung, archetypes reside in that part of the Unconscious, which is common to all human beings and is therefore collective. These archetypes are not directly available to the conscious mind but manifest themselves in dreams and other mystical experiences. Archetypes are the clues to self-realisation in myths, and in many other cultural phenomena. Jung discovered different archetypes through recordings of his own dreams, fantasies, and visions, as well as those of his patients, and found that these archetypes are both good and bad manifestations, reflecting the principle of the opposites in the psyche. An image can be considered archetypal when it can be shown to exist in the records of human history, in identical form and with the same meaning.

Particularly important Archetype’s in Jung’s Theory
• The Shadow is the negative or inferior side of the personality, which includes animal tendencies inherited from pre-human ancestors.
• The Anima represents the feminine in man, and the Animus is the comparable counterpart in the female psyche.
• The Mother is the source of all life and nurture. This archetype includes different manifestations: Mother Earth, Divine Mother, deep water, womb, a vessel. The sea, the moon etc.
• The Child represents the original or childlike condition in the life of the individual. It also signifies the potentiality of future personality development and self-realization.
• The Wise Old Man is the archetype of meaning, spirit and authority.

The Truth in Psych

Credits
Director, animator, writer: Zohar Dvir
Voices: Amy Toledano, Alexia Charoud, Christian Pecher, Hugo Charoud
Sound Design: Alexia Charoud
Royal College of Art | 2020
We Are Future Shock
A film about finding utopias in an unsatisfying life. Staring a Grizzly Bear, Jesus Christ and Elvis Presley.
Royal College of Art, London 2019
Festival Screenings
Annecy WTF2019
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2019
Ann Arbor 2020
Pictoplasma Berlin 2019
Animest Bucharest International Animation Film Festival 2019
Bit Bang Fest 2020
Kaboom Animation Festival 2019
Animanima International Animation Festival 2019
Festival du film d'animation de Savigny 2019
A film about finding utopias in an unsatisfying life. Staring a Grizzly Bear, Jesus Christ and Elvis Presley.
Royal College of Art, London 2019
Festival Screenings
Annecy WTF2019
Ottawa International Animation Festival 2019
Ann Arbor 2020
Pictoplasma Berlin 2019
Animest Bucharest International Animation Film Festival 2019
Bit Bang Fest 2020
Kaboom Animation Festival 2019
Animanima International Animation Festival 2019
Festival du film d'animation de Savigny 2019
Harvey and The Zoons - Half as Sweet
Animator/Director: Zohar Dvir
Concept: Zohar Dvir and Harry Bhalerao
Music: Harry Bhalerao and Alexia Charoud
Animator/Director: Zohar Dvir
Concept: Zohar Dvir and Harry Bhalerao
Music: Harry Bhalerao and Alexia Charoud
Festival Screenings
2023 Pictoplasma Berlin
2023 Fest Anča
2023 La Guarimba International Film Festival
2023 Scream Queer
2023 Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest
2023 Pictoplasma Berlin
2023 Fest Anča
2023 La Guarimba International Film Festival
2023 Scream Queer
2023 Tracce Cinematografiche Film Fest
Intergalactic Love Story: Part 1
Animated and Directed by Zohar Dvir
Sound Design by Alexia Charoud
Royal College of Art, Lonely Summer 2019
Festival Screenings
Vienna Shorts Film Festival 2020
Lago Film fest 2020
Press
Girls In Film
Elemmental, (Spanish)
Animated and Directed by Zohar Dvir
Sound Design by Alexia Charoud
Royal College of Art, Lonely Summer 2019
Festival Screenings
Vienna Shorts Film Festival 2020
Lago Film fest 2020
Press
Girls In Film
Elemmental, (Spanish)
Stars Of The Old North
Directed & animated by Zohar Dvir
Writing & Voice-over by Dean Lanner
Music by Nitzan Dana
Made as part of "Notes From Home" Exhibition
Curated by Dor Amitai & Yehonatan Cohen
The Illustration Week Tel Aviv | 2020
Directed & animated by Zohar Dvir
Writing & Voice-over by Dean Lanner
Music by Nitzan Dana
Made as part of "Notes From Home" Exhibition
Curated by Dor Amitai & Yehonatan Cohen
The Illustration Week Tel Aviv | 2020