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Robert Bresson in St. Louis: Au Hasard Balthazar (in 35mm!)

by Pier Marton | Mar 19, 2017 | Complexity, Doc, Eco, Film, France, French, Ideas, Idées, Mystery, STL

There is not one heart for humans and another heart for animals… Either one has a heart or one does not. Il n’y a pas un cœur pour les hommes et un autre cœur pour les animaux… On a du cœur ou on n’en a pas — Lamartine The rare screening of a 35mm print by one of...

Francofonia by Sokurov

by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2016 | Art, Complexity, Death, Doc, Film, France, History, Ideas, Mystery, Review, STL, Time, Violence, Wars

My Review I try not to tell people something. — Sokurov We eagerly divide up our lives into past, present, future (and history), and act as if the riddle of time, this most perplexing mystery, had been solved. Yet, a few scientists, philosophers, artists, poets,...

The Void and its Pressure

by Pier Marton | Jan 1, 2016 | Art, Care, Complexity, Death, Doc, Education, Ego, Hispanic, Ideas, NON, Now, Peace, Poet, Site, Spectacle, Text, The Future, Time, Violence, Wars, Women, Words, World, Youth

— January 1st – World-Wide Wishful Thinking Day — El Vacío y su Presión translated into English as The Void and its Pressure ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM Spanish Version & Original Links –> Primera Parte & Segunda Parte El vacío y su presión (I & II)...

THE SCHOOL OF NO MEDIA

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. — Kafka The essence of normalcy is the refusal of reality. — Ernst Becker Technology… the...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s Masterpieces in St. Louis

by Pier Marton | Sep 3, 2015 | Asia, Doc, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Politics, Review, Spectacle, STL, Time, US, Violence

The Films’ Websites The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence. Drafthouse (the distributor) – to find out where else to watch these films The Act of Killing & The Look of Silence Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. — Oscar Wilde I...

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 us.” — Andrew Marr “The sixth...

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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