With the release in France of a second film version of L’Écume des Jours – Mood Indigo – by Gondry (cf. below for the 1968 version) the marriage of two French zany authors is a done deal! Boris Vian (writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer!) is famous for his songs, his plays and his novels. He was...
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 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...
Read MoreDanis Tanovic & Nazif Mujic
Danis Tanovic is the maker of the Academy Award winning comedy No Man’s Land and Cirkus Columbia. Now he has the realist drama, An Episode in the life of an Iron Picker, which won the Berlinale 2013 Jury Grand Prize & Best Actor Prize (Grand Prix du Jury & Meilleur Acteur). Mujic went from iron picking to receiving the Silver Bear, and now...
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...
Read MorePatricio Guzmán & La Consciencia/Conscience
¡La Memoria Existe! Memory Exists! Yo creo que la memoria tiene fuerza de gravedad. Siempre nos atrae. Los que tienen memoria son capaces de vivir en el frágil tiempo presente. Los que no la tienen, no viven en ninguna parte. P.G. Nostalgia de la Luz I am convinced that memory has a gravitational force. It is constantly attracting us. Those who have a...
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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.
