Who is a Jew? (1954) If it is not race, what then makes a Jew? Religion? I am an atheist. Jewish nationalism? I am an internationalist. In neither sense am I, therefore, a Jew. I am, however, a Jew by force of my unconditional solidarity with the persecuted and exterminated. I am a Jew because I l feel the Jewish tragedy as my own tragedy; because I feel...
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Film Festival Tours: Montréal, NY, Paris, Le Touquet, Agadir, Rabat... Dans HuffPost par Ruth Grosrichard mediterraneus au milieu de la terre/in the middle of the earth Jewish Tinghir Juif EmailDigg Pin ItShare on...
Read More5 Jours (+ 2) avec George Steiner
” Extraordinary Fellow” Churchill College, Cambridge Beaucoup plus terre à terre en Français? – More grounded in French? Les différences entre l’Anglais et le Français, les differentes parties du cerveau d’après Koestler, le XXeme siècle et le déclin de la civilization, Homère et Flaubert, philo et math/musique/danse...
Read MoreFootnote: DNA Methylation, Cancer and the Cedars’ Deep Connection
Prof. Haim/Howard Cedar and his son, Yossef/Joseph Cedar, the filmmaker (by Nir Hasson in Haaretz) “There’s no connection between the father and the son in ‘Footnote’ and the relationship between us. I think there’s something special in our relationship. Each of us talks to the other about his field, but at a basic level. So basic that what I do...
Read More(some of) the Baron Cohen Gene(ous)
“Zero Degrees of Empathy” by Dr. Simon Bar Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the University’s Autism Research Centre. “The role of art for a global (environ)mental cultural change” by Dan Baron...
Read MoreA Great Paper is Unpleasant to Read: Haaretz
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.” Hannah Arendt Recent Gleanings from Haaretz From “Palestinian television still glorifies terror attacks against Israel” by Avi Issacharoff At certain moments, while watching a scene from a program broadcast by Palestinian television on October 25 of last year, it 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.
