by Pier Marton | Feb 3, 2017 | Afri, Doc, Human Rights, Racism, Review, US, Violence
9.jpg#IAMNOTYOURNEGRO Nominated for a 2017 Oscar … because of the bad niggers we were. And we know that, for the perpetuation of this system, we have all been mercilessly brutalized, and have been told nothing but lies, lies about ourselves and our kinsmen and our...
by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2016 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Doc, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Peace, Racism, Religion, Shoah, STL, Violence, Women
— With this update because of another St. Louis screening. — The 2016 St. Louis International Film Festival features 420 films from 72 countries; it is clearly impossible to have seen them all! Yet, by serving on a couple of committees this year, I can easily...
by Pier Marton | Nov 4, 2016 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Death, France, French, Hispanic, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Racism, STL
[WITH THREE TREASURES] – find them below – Again, the St. Louis wow-festival is a trip! This year, SLIFF after 2300 submissions – not counting distributors and studio considerations – will screen 420 films from 72 countries! Below are some...
by Pier Marton | Oct 14, 2016 | Antisemitism, Books, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Racism, Review, Shoah, Time, Women
My review: No man is an island… Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. John Donne – Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624 War is Peace, Freedom...
by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2016 | Art, Complexity, Death, Doc, Film, France, History, Ideas, Mystery, Review, STL, Time, Violence, Wars
My Review I try not to tell people something. — Sokurov We eagerly divide up our lives into past, present, future (and history), and act as if the riddle of time, this most perplexing mystery, had been solved. Yet, a few scientists, philosophers, artists, poets,...