by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2016 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Doc, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Peace, Racism, Religion, Shoah, STL, Violence, Women
— With this update because of another St. Louis screening. — The 2016 St. Louis International Film Festival features 420 films from 72 countries; it is clearly impossible to have seen them all! Yet, by serving on a couple of committees this year, I can easily...
by Pier Marton | Nov 4, 2016 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Death, France, French, Hispanic, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Racism, STL
[WITH THREE TREASURES] – find them below – Again, the St. Louis wow-festival is a trip! This year, SLIFF after 2300 submissions – not counting distributors and studio considerations – will screen 420 films from 72 countries! Below are some...
by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2016 | Art, Complexity, Death, Doc, Film, France, History, Ideas, Mystery, Review, STL, Time, Violence, Wars
My Review I try not to tell people something. — Sokurov We eagerly divide up our lives into past, present, future (and history), and act as if the riddle of time, this most perplexing mystery, had been solved. Yet, a few scientists, philosophers, artists, poets,...
by Pier Marton | Jan 1, 2016 | Art, Care, Complexity, Death, Doc, Education, Ego, Hispanic, Ideas, NON, Now, Peace, Poet, Site, Spectacle, Text, The Future, Time, Violence, Wars, Women, Words, World, Youth
— January 1st – World-Wide Wishful Thinking Day — El Vacío y su Presión translated into English as The Void and its Pressure ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM Spanish Version & Original Links –> Primera Parte & Segunda Parte El vacío y su presión (I...
by Pier Marton | Jan 1, 2016 | Action, Art, Care, Complexity, Death, Doc, Eco, Education, Ego, Free, Health, Highlights, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Now, Peace, Poet, Religion, Site, Spectacle, Time, Violence, Wars, World
January 1st, World-Wide Wishful Thinking Day, is the Grand Opening of the School of No Media [from the front page] A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. — Kafka The essence of normalcy is the refusal of reality. — Ernst Becker Technology…...
by Pier Marton | Nov 11, 2015 | Cancer, Care, Corporations, Death, Doc, Dollars, Eco, Film, Food, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Native, Peace, Popular, Review, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, STL
Three of my favorite films at the 24th Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival TWO OUT OF THREE PLAY TODAY! Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 8:15pm In Transit “… having a good look at the world…” The last of the great direct cinema documentary...