by Pier Marton | May 16, 2012 | Featured
To ride the unbalance between: 1. a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, musicality and the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions. 2. the stupidity and blindness of...
by Pier Marton | Sep 15, 2010 | Art, Doc, Ego, Exp, Featured, Film, France, Ideas, Jewish, Media, Politics, Shoah, Teach
A speaker/writer/artist/teacher and film consultant, Pier Marton was born and raised in Paris and moved to the U.S. in the early seventies to live in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco and, more recently, St. Louis. In parallel to...
by Pier Marton | Sep 15, 2010 | Featured
Every age has its icons: photographers freeze that moment, cinematographers capture that movement. The traces of those fetishistic rituals are revered in museums, theaters and online. Media has already transformed society; can visual artists, besides “doing it...
by Pier Marton | Sep 15, 2010 | Featured
Like the Uncola… ELSEWHERE To bring up the words of Arthur Rimbaud, one of France’s most illustrious poets, “La vie est ailleurs/Life is elsewhere,” is not to imply that poetry is a solution – as Rimbaud’s life clearly proves. It is...