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Salgado & The Salt of the Earth – a review

by Pier Marton | May 16, 2015 | Art, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, France, Highlights, Human Rights, Native, Now, Peace, Photo, Politics, Racism, Review, Spectacle, STL, Travel, Wars, Women, World

IN US CITIES The Film’s Website & INSTITUTO TERRA I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: “I didn’t kill that man on that photograph, I didn’t starve that child.” That’s why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace. —...

Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales

by Pier Marton | Mar 27, 2015 | Film, Hispanic, Humor, Jewish, Music, Review, Theater, Violence, Women

AT THE TIVOLI IN ST. LOUIS LAST DAY IS THURSDAY! Wild Tales/ Relatos Salvajes/Les Nouveaux Sauvages/Storie pazzesche/Jeder dreht mal durch! Bromas y broncas… Hasta que la muerte nos separe – Todos podemos perder el control. My review: Frustration and furor… anger and...

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...

The Green Prince (A Review): Nothing Obvious Here Too!

by Pier Marton | Oct 17, 2014 | Antisemitism, Books, Doc, Ideas, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Review, Wars

At the Plaza Frontenac in St. Louis Starting today (Friday October 17, 2014) (11:00) 1:30 4:00 7:10 9:35 My review: Spies like James Bond/007 can appear cool… but what if it were their family, their relatives and their people they were betraying? That type of treason...

The Kindness of Yoram Gross (of Blinky Bill Fame)

by Pier Marton | Dec 28, 2013 | Antisemitism, Doc, History, Jewish, Review, Shoah, Wars

Post-Screening Note & Review: At my recent presentation of the film at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, it was clear that the audience was enthralled by watching the elder Yoram Gross, the noted Australian animator, passing the baton of history...

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