Roma Archives - Pier Marton

Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow: “Truth is Always Unbearable”

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

– At the Tivoli Theater – “Over 65 million people in the world today have been forcibly displaced from their homes… Refugees worldwide spend an average of 26 years displaced… ” The film never can tell the truth, the truth is always unbearable. Ai Weiwei From the film....

Judgement in Hungary (US Premiere!)

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2017 | Doc, Magyar, Racism, Roma, Site, STL, Violence

One must always conjugate the verb to resist in the present tense. — Lucie Aubrac In 2008 and 2009, Hungarian right-wing extremists committed a series of attacks on members of the Roma community. Six people were killed, including a five-year-old, and another five were...

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....

Hungary and Anti-Semitism, Again

by Pier Marton | Oct 31, 2013 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Magyar, Middle-East, Music, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Theater, Time

Addendum: Dec. 11, 2013 A letter to The Guardian by Andras Schiff, the Hungarian-born British classical pianist: Hungarians Must Face Their Nazi Past, Not Venerate ItAddendum: Nov. 3, 2013 HU – ES – EN – DE – FR From the New York Times An Opera Fights Hungary’s Rising...

Garry Davis = Citizen of the World #1: 1921– 2013

by Pier Marton | Aug 1, 2013 | Asia, Books, Death, Eco, Highlights, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Native, Peace, Poet, Politics, Roma, Travel, US, Wars, Women, World, Youth

His blog: WorldService.org/Views From My Space. Over the years, the World Service Authority in Washington, DC, has issued over two million documents (world passports, ID’s, marriage licenses, etc… ). They are available at World Government (202) 638-2662. In 2012,...

Danis Tanovic & Nazif Mujic

by Pier Marton | Feb 19, 2013 | Docu, Film, Roma, Theater

Danis Tanovic is the maker of the Academy Award winning comedy No Man’s Land and Cirkus Columbia. Now he has the realist drama, An Episode in the life of an Iron Picker, which won the Berlinale 2013 Jury Grand Prize & Best Actor Prize (Grand Prix du Jury &...

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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