Ses couleurs & ses toits plats. Its colors & its flat roofs. & La @&!# de la vie normale. Normal life’s @&!#. La Fée (The Fairy) par Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy – on its way to St. Louis Le Havre par Kaurismaki Xtras! EmailDigg Pin ItShare on...
Read MoreNuremberg: Its Lesson For Today
The outstanding film that was produced in 1948 by Stuart Schulberg (with Pare Lorentz) yet never screened in the US until NOW! A time to remember Whitney Harris’s work (cf. below). My review: TO LIVE WITH AN OPEN HEART (and eyes/ears) so that today may have a tomorrow! Can we venture out of the most murderous century with 262 million dead without...
Read MoreMargin Call
A few words/a review: Do you need another reason to Occupy Wall Street? The financial disaster minute by minute – unfortunately based on a true story – with stellar performances by Stanley Tucci, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto amongst others (with the feel of an Oscar Winner). If the math in the documentary “Inside Job”...
Read More’11 SLIFF BUZZ – Those I found the time to write about…
Eco-Pirate is tonight at the Tivoli at 9:30 p.m. The others, check the schedule: The Welcome, Peace, Restoration, To Be Heard, The Hammer… but MANY others I did not get to write about. The ’11 St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) website. EmailDigg Pin ItShare on...
Read More’11 SLIFF BUZZ PEACE ???
PEACE My short review: Are you familiar with Barthes’s “Degree Zero of Writing,” Lévinas’s philosophy of caress* or Ozu’s elliptical cinema? For the viewer of this astounding film these came to mind, but all that is required is the openness and patience that subtlety demands. Mono No Aware, the Japanese concept often...
Read More’11 SLIFF BUZZ: The Welcome
My review: Civilians expect the military to do the dirty work for them: send them to HELL… and if they are lucky enough to come back alive, ask them to reintegrate as if nothing happened. 24 courageous veterans connect with their pain to allow us, the so-called civilized world, to hear a few words. One can call it “PTSD,” but the rawness...
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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.
