Upon turning 18, he travelled to Paris and Switzerland to study art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

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.

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.

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, while, essentially, living in a sort of open relationship, together with artist Buki Greenberg [he].