Reminds me of the depleted hospital food… May 9, 2013, 4:39 pm – from the NYTimes The Michael Moore of the Grade-School Lunchroom By INDRANI SEN Guerrilla filmmakers often face crackdowns by the powers that be, and Zachary Maxwell is no exception. His hidden-camera documentary was almost derailed last year when he was caught filming without...
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… to state in unison that they can’t do much more than smile and laugh… now that the NRA has once more won and that Guantanamo will remain indefinitely open. War relief, comic relief? What is on: the joke is ON, the show is ON, the spectacle goes ON… and dissent is co-opted and absorbed. Too uncool, it is time to laugh. The surface...
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...
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Jean-Christophe Averty, Satrape du Collège de Pataphysique (Pataphysics)* – et premier artiste-vidéo - et Alfred Jarry, créateur de la science des solutions imaginaires, se rencontrent électroniquement parlant en 1965. *dont les cahiers ont été composés des écrits de George-Albert Aurier, Christophe, Charles Cros, Léon-Paul Fargue,...
Read MoreNot a Movie – Syria/Syrie – Pas du Cinéma
Via Le Monde – une propagande qui ne marche pas pour Al-Assad: L’agence ANNA, basée dans le territoire disputé d’Abkhazie (province de Géorgie dont l’indépendance n’est pas reconnue internationalement) diffuse régulièrement sur Internet des reportages consacrés à l’armée syrienne et à la gloire de Bachar...
Read MoreShlomi Eldar – the Maker of “Precious Life”: The Tears of a Reporter
Clips Below. Shlomi Eldar on Al-Monitor Israeli news broadcasters don’t cry Shlomi Eldar reflects on the live television report that profoundly changed the way he sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By Ayelett Shani Published in Haaretz – 19.01.13 As a commentator, you’re considered an odd bird. Let’s say that for a time I was a person...
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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.
