The talented Cyril Effala dies in Yaoundé at the age of 35 from typhoid fever. More songs (Le laboureur, Nuits Perdues, Ashuka Ngongoli, Saint Pierre) are available on this MySpace page. May someone produce a compilation CD! Thanks to my friend Jay Lou, I have one cassette somewhere… Monsieur l’Abbé (some mistakes in the transcription –...
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 MoreAmazon Watch & Amazon Emergency
More pictures below. The world’s lungs – Les poumons du monde. From chief RAONI’s petition in 2000: 10 years ago, I came to explain my concern about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. I told you about the fires, the burning sun and the great winds that would blow if the man continues to destroy the forest. You supported me and you...
Read MoreLatcho Drom by/par Tony Gatlif + More!
From India, through Egypt, Turkey, Hungary, Germany, France and Spain, the Roma have traveled… and now that entire film and others are online, on YouTube. Twenty years later, Latcho Drom’s visual and musical delight echoes through time. Version anglaise, English version, version Française, French version? This is the international language of...
Read MoreIt Takes Very Little Effort/Brain to Be Stupid
Mi Magyarok megvédjük Zsidó honfitársainkat. We the Hungarians will defend our compatriots. Nous les Hongrois nous défendrons nos compatriotes. Viktor Orban Viktor, Miniszterelnök, Prime Minister of Hungary, Premier Ministre de Hongrie. Said in the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest Hungary – Today December...
Read MoreTo Israel’s Leaders: Don’t Defend me – Not Like This
Nina Menkes, the filmmaker, says “DEAR BIBI and HAMAS: DEFINITION OF INSANITY–KEEP DOING THE SAME THING AND EXPECT DIFFERENT RESULTS.” A message to Israel’s leaders: Don’t defend me – not like this. [en Français ci-dessous: «Ne nous défendez pas – pas comme ça» ] As she listens to the rockets mortar bombs raining in...
Read MoreAbout
Pier Marton
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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.
