The multi-talented world hero, musician & ethnomusicologist. If you are not living on the edge, you’re taking too much room. B.B. He used to quote Sun Ra: The planet is asleep, and it’s the fault of musicians who are not true to themselves. [Ed.: I would add that it is NOT just musicians] Bob is survived by his wife and partner of 15 years,...
Read MoreWladislaw Szlengel (the ghetto poet): 1914-1943
The poems of W?adys?aw Szlengel were read in houses of the Ghetto and out of it, in the evenings and were passed on from hand to hand and passed from mouth to mouth. The poems were written in burning passion, while the events, which seemed to last for centuries occurred. They were living reflection of our feelings, thoughts, needs, pains and merciless fight...
Read MoreThe Gatekeepers
The Oscar Nominated Film’s Website & The Trailer: My review – [Attention: this film does not fit any category nor any short blurb.] “seeing the state as a value is the essence of the fascist conception” & “the sacred cow of national unity” Yeshayahu Leibowitz The film may inspire one to consult (again?) Yeshayahu...
Read MoreDemocracy Now! and its Anti-Israel Bias
With its “trophy headline” –> “Ex-Shin Bet Chiefs Denounce Occupation, Compare Israel to Nazi Germany” –> Dror Moreh, the Israeli filmmaker, ran the gauntlet by appearing with his Oscar nominated The Gatekeepers on Democracy Now! DROR MOREH: I have to say that I feel a little bit uncomfortable in the way that you...
Read MoreDr. Frederick Sweet (a mensch): 1938 – 2013
For Justice: Anybody who ever came in contact with Fred knows how willing he was to unmask the dark side of the medical field* and to fight for the underdog, In parallel to his jumping in the water more than once to save capsized strangers, he had gone out of his way to help people who may have been struggling in one way or another, over and over. The...
Read MoreThe Man Without a World Screening in NYC
A rare screening of the silent Yiddish film by Eleanor Antin at the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street (w. support by YIVO and ICP) Sunday February 24th at 2 p.m. with an introduction by J. Hoberman, Village Voice critic/author. [fyi I am in the title role] Features also Eleanor Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin and Newton Harrison. This is...
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Pier Marton
___________________Screens Reveal AND Conceal
Born and raised in Paris, Pier Marton moved to the U.S. in the early seventies to live in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and, more recently, St. Louis; in parallel to teaching media at major universities, his many video-art activities have included video installations, performances and documentaries (with works in prominent museums like MoMA and Beaubourg).
As new media offers more and more a form of pseudo-challenge to the status quo, for Pier Marton it is “no-media” that now represents the next frontier: to look beyond media and most concepts, however "practical" those may appear to be.
He is available for presentations and workshops on:
Non-Images & No-Media - Slow Cinema - Shoah and Film- Experimental Cinema and Video Art - Film Painting in Sound/Movement - Non-Violent Media - Imperfection in Film - Unclassifiable Music/Arts - Blinded by Sight - The Shoah in 1,000 Years - A Porous Reality - Secular Jews - Taking it the Hard Way - Exhilarating Creativity - and anything else that may be ignored by society at large.
Remnants from recent presentations: Images of the Other (at the School of Visual Arts Alguonquin Annual Conference), Resistance (at a St. Louis Yom HaShoah Commemoration).
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Laure Adler
Conversations-surprises: si vous avez besoin de continuer à rester éveillé, et n’avez pas peur.
François Busnel
D’autres conversations…
Raphaêl Enthoven
Et philosopher à haute voix.
