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Dalam Jagal/The Act of Killing (Online Full Versions)

by Pier Marton | May 20, 2014 | Action, Asia, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, Genocide, Highlights, Human Rights, Now, Peace, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Time, Wars

2014 Oscar Nominated and BAFTA Best Documentary Winner What must be seen will be seen. (for free for Bahasa Indonesia speakers – film as change!) This video was posted with the full approval of the copyright holders of The Act of Killing. & the Director’s Cut...

A Petition for Hungary to Confront its Past

by Pier Marton | May 12, 2014 | Action, Education, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Time

PETITION (by George Gömöri) Petitioning Mr. János Áder, The President of Hungary (MEP) Prevent the erection of a memorial planned for Budapest which tries to whitewash Hungary’s role in the Second World War Recent relevant articles: Hungarian Spectrum: Randolph L....

Pete Seeger: 1919-2014

by Pier Marton | Jan 28, 2014 | Death, Human Rights, Jewish, Music, Peace, Poet, Politics, Women, World, Youth

Inscribed on his banjo: “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.” “It is better to have struggled and lost, than never to have struggled at all.” Pete Seeger – The New York Times’ Obituary – The author of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” (with Joe...

Sometimes ‘Nazi’ is the Right Word

by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2014 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Racism, Shoah, Words

In the New York Times: Sometimes ‘Nazi’ Is the Right Word By ETGAR KERET JAN. 17, 2014 TEL AVIV — “NAZI” is a short word. It has only two syllables, like “rac-ist” or “kill-er.” “Democracy,” on the other hand, is a long word with lots of syllables that is very tiring...

Why Care About the N.S.A.? The End of Journalism & Privacy

by Pier Marton | Dec 6, 2013 | History, Human Rights, Ideas, Now, Politics, Tech, US, Wars, Women, World, Youth

Below, a short video clip by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (“We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists” -& currently on a documentary on Aaron Swartz) answering these typical questions – with Daniel Ellsberg “the infrastructure for a police state,” the...

SLIFF BUZZ ’13 – Some Recommendations

by Pier Marton | Nov 14, 2013 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Death, Doc, Eco, France, Future Tech, Games, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Software, STL, Time, Video, Women, World

Amongst 350 films at the St. Louis International Film Festival, there are of course a great many more… below is a short selection of some seen and some unseen (guesses) films I would recommend. I will post others (after the festival during which I was “kidnapped” by...

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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