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That seditious activity: being alive

Gemma Bovery – a film review

by Pier Marton | Jul 12, 2015 | Books, Death, Film, France, French, Humor, Review, STL

Leaving St. Louis Thursday July 16. 2015 Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema – Map Hours: 11:10 – 1:40 – 4:30 – 7:05 My Review: ” I can resist everything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde. A light comedy to delight those who are too...

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

by Pier Marton | Jun 13, 2015 | Action, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Food, Future Tech, Genocide, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Native, Sci/Nat, Time, Violence, Wars, World

“It is estimated that every hour three species are lost forever; that’s 70 a day, 500 a week, 27,000 species ever year… which would make it the fastest mass extinction in our planet’s history. There is no doubt about the cause, it’s...

Salgado & The Salt of the Earth – a review

by Pier Marton | May 16, 2015 | Art, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Highlights, Human Rights, Native, Now, Peace, Photo, Politics, Racism, Review, Spectacle, STL, Travel, Wars, Women, World

IN US CITIES The Film’s Website & INSTITUTO TERRA I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn’t kill that man on that photograph, I didn’t starve that child.” That’s why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers....

Reggie Yates’ Extreme Russia Series

by Pier Marton | Apr 28, 2015 | Afri, Death, Doc, Now, Politics, Racism, Violence, Youth

Reggie Yates writes about his experience (below). A MUST-SEE BBC SERIES ABOUT TODAY’S RUSSIA I still highly recommend also the recent piece on Chechnya: La Tchétchénie Maintenant (Chechnya Now) Russia is the largest country on earth and home to nearly 150...

DOC: Chechnya Now/La Tchétchénie Maintenant

by Pier Marton | Mar 15, 2015 | Death, Doc, French, Human Rights, Now, Politics, Violence, Wars, Women

Ces premières images ne sont pas tirées du documentaire mais vous donnent une idée de la Tchétchénie d’aujourd’hui. These first images are not from the documentary but give you a sense of today’s Chechnya. Tchétchénie, Une Guerre Sans Traces Manon...

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Bullets

by Pier Marton | Feb 5, 2015 | Art, Death, France, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Peace, Politics, Wars

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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