Death | Pier Marton

War(s)

by Pier Marton | Jan 4, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Books, Care, Death, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Media, Politics, Spectacle, Wars

War is lie, the book/website. Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Hotel Terminus by Marcel Ophuls

by Pier Marton | Dec 29, 2010 | Antisemitism, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, France, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Juif, KeyFilm, Politics, Racism, Review, Shoah, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

Did you read this article in the NYTimes about the Nazis’ “Safe Haven” in the U.S.? Then you may want to read/see this below. My short review: One of the greatest films on the Holocaust (and beyond). Helps one understand how one conjugates “To Lie...

Beyond the Visible: A Vital Film (w. review)

by Pier Marton | Dec 28, 2010 | Antisemitism, Art, Care, Death, Doc, Ego, Film, Health, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, KeyFilm, Media, Middle-East, Photo, Politics, Racism, Review, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, Women

Yael Hersonski’s An Unfinished Film Had posted a trailer back in August, but this film requires much more attention. My short review: One of the sharpest media literacy lesson to be found: the set-up and staging stink… we are indeed all actors in a...

Superchef + Superman = a Mensch

by Pier Marton | Dec 20, 2010 | Asia, Care, Dance, Death, Eco, Health, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Now, Politics, Travel

From 5 star hotel chef to feeding the hungry off the street, now in his 9th year. The Akshaya Trust Website with its mission: Committed care for helpless, forsaken, mentally ill, old, sick, roadside destitute living and dying in the streets of Madurai – by...

Big Brother Has Won (Once More)

by Pier Marton | Dec 20, 2010 | Art, Death, Eco, Future Tech, Human Rights, Media, Politics, Sci/Nat, Software, Spectacle

They know you too well: web tracking and its volunteer victims (with cookies, etc…). You ARE the products. NPR’s Science Friday shows it all too clearly. Richard Serra’s “Television Delivers People” has been quietly updated to “The...

Citations de Barthes/Barthes Quotations

by Pier Marton | Dec 20, 2010 | Books, Death, France, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Time

… la définition du définitif. 9 Juillet 1978 Barthes, Journal de Deuil =============== … the definition of the definitive July 9, 1978 Barthes, Mourning Diary =============== La finalité des mots/The finality of words. =============== Une femme, que je...