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SLIFF 16 BUZZ – Highlights & Recommendations

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 recommendations – I am...

SLIFF BUZZ 2015 (An Overview)

by Pier Marton | Nov 2, 2015 | Afri, Antisemitism, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Film, France, French, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Magyar, Media, Middle-East, Peace, Politics, Racism, Religion, Shoah, STL, Time, Travel, US, Violence, Wars, Women, World, Youth

With my Recommendations Below — tickets are on sale now — The 2015 Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) November 5 – November 15 A UNIQUE CHANCE TO WATCH CINEMATIC TREASURES… … films which, no matter how outstanding they are, often will not find a...

MERU – a review

by Pier Marton | Sep 11, 2015 | Asia, Death, Doc, Mystery, Peace, Poet, Review, STL

At the Tivoli (in St. Louis) LAST DAY IS THURSDAY OCT. 15th! 12:15pm – 2:25 – 4:40 – 7:20 – 9:30 MY REVIEW DEFIANTLY YOURS [for me the mountains will always bring me back to Mount Analogue & Ilarie Voronca’s “mes amis mes montagnes” – my friends my mountains] If...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s Masterpieces in St. Louis

by Pier Marton | Sep 3, 2015 | Asia, Doc, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Review, Spectacle, STL, Time, US, Violence

The Films’ Websites The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence. Drafthouse (the distributor) – to find out where else to watch these films The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. — Oscar Wilde I...

The Land of Many Palaces

by Pier Marton | Mar 26, 2015 | Art, Asia, Doc, Dollars, Health, Human Rights, Site, Spectacle

[BONUS ADDENDUM: Rent A Foreigner (NYTimes OpDoc) “The image has become the reality”] Webster University: Worldwide Events The Land of Many Palaces – a documentary by Song Ting and Adam James Smith – Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm Winifred Moore Auditorium 470 E....

The Ebola Emergency: A Scream-Un Cri/Grito/Grido!

by Pier Marton | Oct 9, 2014 | Asia, Care, Death, Genocide, Health, Now, Politics, Racism, Security, Wars, Women, World

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the world’s deadliest to date and the World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency as more than 4,000 people have been killed by the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria this year. Médecins...

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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