’11 SLIFF BUZZ – Those I found the time to write about…

by Pier Marton | Nov 15, 2011 | Asia, Doc, Eco, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Poet, Politics, Sci/Nat, Sound, Sounds, STL

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.

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus