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Reggie Yates’ Extreme Russia Series

by Pier Marton | Apr 28, 2015 | Afri, Death, Doc, Now, Politics, Racism, Violence, Youth

Reggie Yates writes about his experience (below). A MUST-SEE BBC SERIES ABOUT TODAY’S RUSSIA I still highly recommend also the recent piece on Chechnya: La Tchétchénie Maintenant (Chechnya Now) Russia is the largest country on earth and home to nearly 150 million...

Timbuktu, The Film

by Pier Marton | Mar 22, 2015 | Film, French, Human Rights, Music, Now, Politics, Review, Violence, Wars

TIMBUKTU LAST DAY IS THURSDAY! is at the Plaza Frontenac in St. Louis DON’T MISS ALSO GETT by/with the talented director/actress Ronit Elkabetz, also at the Plaza Frontenac Golden Globe Nominated & WILD TALES M Y R E V I E W produced by the brothers Almadóvar...

DOC: Chechnya Now/La Tchétchénie Maintenant

by Pier Marton | Mar 15, 2015 | Death, Doc, French, Human Rights, Now, Politics, Violence, Wars, Women

Ces premières images ne sont pas tirées du documentaire mais vous donnent une idée de la Tchétchénie d’aujourd’hui. These first images are not from the documentary but give you a sense of today’s Chechnya. Tchétchénie, Une Guerre Sans Traces Manon Loizeau retourne en...

6 Millions pour la Semaine/for a Week

by Pier Marton | Jan 27, 2015 | Antisemitism, Doc, France, French, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Now, Politics, Shoah

Jusqu’au Dernier : La Destruction des Juifs d’Europe – To The Last One: The Destruction of Europe’s Jews – Le Holocauste, une histoire sur les Juifs qui ne concernera que les Juifs? Will the specificity of the killing of Jews remain only a Jewish story? PM – [Utiliser...

Syria: Outrage Is Not Enough

by Pier Marton | Nov 29, 2014 | Action, Doc, Genocide, Human Rights, Middle-East, Now, Photo, Politics, Racism, US, Wars, World

From the NYTimes Middle East Syrian’s Photos Spur Outrage, but Not Action By MICHAEL R. GORDON OCT. 31, 2014 WASHINGTON — Wearing a blue hood to shield his identity, a former Syrian police photographer briefed a congressional committee over the summer on the photos he...

Être Là + Where You Are is Who You Are = Solitude & Claudie Hunzinger

by Pier Marton | Nov 20, 2014 | Art, Books, Care, Dance, France, Ideas, Idées, Music, Now, Peace, Sci/Nat, Women

Another way to be and to think — Une autre manière d’être et de penser Claudie Hunzinger est écrivain et artiste. Elle vit en Alsace dans les montagnes des Vosges depuis 1964. Wikipédia (en Français) ENGLISH TRANSLATION BELOW Interview sur Hors-Champs (France Culture)...

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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