En résumé: Le Gamin au Vélo. De nouveaux magnifiques débats à corps perdus par les frères Dardenne… peut-être qu’on s’y retrouvera malgré tout? Grand Prix Cannes 2011. –> 20/20 My review: The Kid with the Bike. The Dardenne brothers’ many accomplishments continue! Again the struggle to be, to exist… again as it...
Read MoreHarry Brod: ‘Working From and Against Privilege’ (at Webster U.)
Harry Brod What would motivate those from dominant social groups to join as allies in struggles for justice with those from correspondingly subordinated groups? How can identities of masculinity, whiteness and heterosexuality become the foundations to undo the structures of social privilege they embody? Harry Brod, author, scholar, and professor of...
Read MoreJoe Pollack, 81, dies today.
Joe Pollack, beloved writer/critic, has died today. It is a sad day for St. Louis. His last film review posted by his wife Ann, after his death this morning. An earlier review of Food, Inc. – the movie. Harper Barnes on Joe Pollack. EmailDigg Pin ItShare on...
Read MoreThe Turin Horse/A Torinói Ló
At Webster University Feb. 17, 18 & 19 – 7:30 p.m. My review: Highly celebrated by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Susan Sontag, cinema’s current Homo Hungaricus, Béla Tarr is famous for the rarely screened films “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.” Jancsó’s long takes and Olmi’s details, here with echoes of...
Read MoreThe Interrupters
To Javon Thompson A Promising Student of mine (at Carnegie Mellon) - shot and killed at age 18 - THE INTERRUPTERS played on Frontline (PBS) Tuesday February 13 This interview on Fresh Air (NPR) with its director, Steve James (of “Hoop Dreams” fame) and the great Ameena Matthews is a good introduction to the film. Check out CeaseFire in...
Read MoreCarnage – Polanski’s Film
At The Tivoli Theater in St. Louis for one more week… My review: “Civilization is what makes you sick.” – Paul Gauguin Some people profess to teach the humanities, others purport to have become specialists in civility, teaching and publishing on the topic, and one could complain about that… but the monstrous behavior that...
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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
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