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National Geographic’s + Sony’s (Vulture) Killer Story

by Pier Marton | Oct 23, 2012 | Death, Film, Middle-East, Politics, Sound, Spectacle, Wars

After Osama bin Laden’s death comes a big bang revenge spectacle in our theaters and our homes, one more glorious solidification of enmity. Evil incarnate, bring it on? Maybe it is high time to revisit Sam Keen’s Faces of the Enemy (the book and the film)? November 4…...

Kirikou et la sorcière/Kirikou and the Sorceress – English Version

by Pier Marton | Oct 7, 2012 | Afri, Care, Film, France, Human Rights, Humor, Music, Mystery, Native, Popular

I am human and I find injustice and stupidity revolting. A big injustice, and a big stupidity, is that half of the humans try to put down the other half instead of being HAPPY that they are there. – Michel Ocelot Je suis humain et l’injustice et la bêtise me...

Chris Marker’s Vertigo

by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2012 | Art, Death, Film, France, Future Tech, Idées, KeyFilm, Media, Now, Poet, Spectacle, Time, Travel, Wars, Women

Un hommage à Marker Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

Eichmanns Ende: Liebe, Verrat, Tod (Eichmann’s End: Love, Betrayal, Death)

by Pier Marton | Jul 28, 2012 | Antisemitism, Doc, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time

… in the same venomous spirit as Alois Brunner (in hiding in Syria after being helped by the CIA) states in 1987 in the Chicago Sun Times: “The Jews deserved to die because they were the devil’s agents and human garbage. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would...

Jodorowski Interviews

by Pier Marton | Jul 5, 2012 | Death, Film, France, Hispanic, Humor, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Native, Poet, Politics, Theater, Time, Travel, Wars

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The Fairy/La Fée

by Pier Marton | May 8, 2012 | Dance, Film, France, Humor, Idées, Poet, Review, STL, Theater, Women

The film’s website with its US screenings (but it is on Netflix too now). My short review: The Fairy/La Fée As Wallace Stevens has eloquently bemoaned, “reality is a cliché,” and The College of Pataphysics in France has for years attempted to remedy that particular...

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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