by Pier Marton | Nov 8, 2021 | Afri, Art, Asia, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, STL, Violence
30th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival In-person and virtual screenings NOV 4-21, 2021 Program is available as a PDF Once more with 405 films from 75 countries (!), the world-class international festival takes place for its 30th anniversary โ this...
by Pier Marton | Oct 20, 2017 | Action, Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, France, Genocide, Health, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Middle-East, Peace, Politics, Racism, Review, Roma, The Future, Travel, US, Violence, Wars, World
โ At the Tivoli Theater โ โOver 65 million people in the world today have been forcibly displaced from their homesโฆ Refugees worldwide spend an average of 26 years displacedโฆ โ The film never can tell the truth, the truth is always unbearable. Ai Weiwei From the film....
by Pier Marton | Jan 1, 2016 | Action, Art, Care, Complexity, Death, Doc, Eco, Education, Ego, Free, Health, Highlights, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Now, Peace, Poet, Religion, Site, Spectacle, Time, Violence, Wars, World
January 1st, World-Wide Wishful Thinking Day, is the Grand Opening of the School of No Media [from the front page] A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. โ Kafka The essence of normalcy is the refusal of reality. โ Ernst Becker Technologyโฆ the...
by Pier Marton | Oct 26, 2015 | Future Tech, Health, Now
ADDENDUM AFTER USING IT I am amazed by the amount of data it provides me for a swim, recognizing which stroke I use, the velocity and timing for each stroke, the time for each lap (and the number of strokes) and each flip turn, and much more. I donโt believe any other...
by Pier Marton | Aug 3, 2015 | Death, Health, Now, Sci/Nat, Women
To my friend, Judith Doneson (1946-2002), Holocaust and film scholar. In the fall, you had complained of being constantly bloated. In February, you had already died. I will always remember you. From the NYTimes RELATED LINKS: Symptoms Found for Early Check on Ovary...
by Pier Marton | Mar 26, 2015 | Art, Asia, Doc, Dollars, Health, Human Rights, Site, Spectacle
[BONUS ADDENDUM: Rent A Foreigner (NYTimes OpDoc) โThe image has become the realityโ] ย Webster University: Worldwide Events The Land of Many Palaces โ a documentary by Song Ting and Adam James Smith โ Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm Winifred Moore Auditorium 470 E....