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 MoreHaneke, a Sadist?
After winning tons of awards like Cannes’ Golden Palms, the Cesars, the Oscars… one wonders whether everyone is blind to the fact that Haneke seems to focus on the obscene (what should be ob-scena, off stage?). He seems to delight in subjecting his audience to pain and worse; from the graphic slashing of one character’s throat in Caché...
Read MoreHoly Motors
My short review: ‘Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all.’ André Breton. CAUTION: This film, a delirious RIFF around Hollywood’s subconscious, will not increase your “joie de vivre!” Like with Buñuel and Dali’s unforgettable collaboration, “the eye” (here, Monsieur Oscar’s) is the starting point,...
Read More’12 SLIFF BUZZ – What You Might Have Missed
The St. Louis International Film Festival is rounding up; as always an amazing round-up of jewels from all around the world… I wish I could have found the time to write individual longer reviews this year. Below, based on what I was able to watch, my own highlights… FICTION: Soog/Mourning (Iran) – Unfortunately not everyone’s taste...
Read MoreThe Other Son – Le Fils de l’Autre
Lorraine Lévy: I wanted to make a film about openings and hope/Je voulais faire un film d’ouverture, un film d’espoir. My review: I too could say “provocative and moving” as other critics have said, but I would rather not. Sometimes life takes a shape that does not conform to the reality we have been taught. In that sense certain...
Read MoreThe Fairy/La Fée
The film’s website with its US screenings (but it is on Netflix too now). My short review: The Fairy/La Fée As Wallace Stevens has eloquently bemoaned, “reality is a cliché,” and The College of Pataphysics in France has for years attempted to remedy that particular form of cataclysm. Unbeknownst to most us, they have made very big...
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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.
