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The Man Without a World Plays in Poland!

by Pier Marton | Jul 11, 2024 | Antisemitism, Art, Death, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Juif, Music, Shoah, Violence, Women

… AND ELSEWHERE! (Lubljana, and upcoming Sweden, Austria, England…) AN INTERVIEW WITH DONALD SOSIN & ALICIA SVIGALS (by Pier Marton/Zevi – the title character) following their playing with The Man Without a World In Lublin and in Krakow in 2023 (what is often...

Mr. Klein revisited in St. Louis

by Pier Marton | Aug 15, 2021 | Antisemitism, Art, Film, France, Genocide, Juif, Politics, Shoah, STL

In 2016, I introduced and discussed Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, now Cinema St. Louis’ Robert Classic French Film Festival has featured its brand new restored copy and I am again, with new insights and information, presenting it on...

Binge-Stream the Film Treasures Now! (SLIFF BUZZ 2020)

by Pier Marton | Nov 19, 2020 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Complexity, Death, Doc, Eco, Education, France, Genocide, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Native, Peace, Politics, Racism, Religion, Shoah, STL, US, Women, World

In spite of Covide-19, the St. Louis International Film Festival is still keeping its promise of excellence and allowing St. Louisans – and now for some films even the rest of the world – for the first time ever, to stream its cornucopia of international films (this...

Treasure Aribert Munzner NOW!

by Pier Marton | Jun 14, 2020 | Antisemitism, Art, Galleries, History, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Mystery, Peace, Religion, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Teach, The Future, Time

A recent GoFundMe succesful campaign to safeguard what could be saved. & Aribert Munzner’s Website What is left undone one minute, is restored by no eternity. – Frederich Schiller After seventy years of being thoroughly engaged in his studio, following a recent...

St. Louis International Film Festival does it again: SLIFF BUZZ 2019

by Pier Marton | Nov 8, 2019 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Death, Doc, Film, France, Genocide, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Magyar, Politics, Shoah, STL, Wars, Women

Post-Festival Update! [Like all SLIFFs and good cinema, surprises are what makes a good festival, and a good film. Some of the goods came in the shape of two films that sent me “far away” – to places I would not easily travel to (“look-ma no T.S.A.”): Kurdistan and...

The Yatzkans at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum

by Pier Marton | Feb 21, 2019 | Antisemitism, Doc, Film, Jewish, Juif, Shoah, STL, Women

With playful tenacity… After having played on French Television & Arte, it has been playing every Tuesday, with special guests (cf. below), at Paris’ Latin Quarter movie theater, the St. André des Arts… now it will play at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum &...

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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