by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2015 | History, Media, Politics, Review, Site, Spectacle, STL, US
— At Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac — General Showtimes: 11:05 am | 1:15 | 4:15 | 7:20 | 9:45 pm My review: Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That’s voting. — Robert Frost It may be odd to like what disturbs us but it is clear that Best of Enemies is...
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....
by Pier Marton | Mar 26, 2015 | Art, Asia, Doc, Dollars, Health, Human Rights, Site, Spectacle
[BONUS ADDENDUM: Rent A Foreigner (NYTimes OpDoc) “The image has become the reality”] Webster University: Worldwide Events The Land of Many Palaces – a documentary by Song Ting and Adam James Smith – Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm Winifred...
by Pier Marton | Nov 24, 2014 | Afri, Death, Human Rights, Media, Racism, Spectacle, US, Video
Clayton MO was cleverly preserved but not Ferguson MO Copyright Pier Marton 2014 I had met briefly with Darryl Pinckney that same afternoon: HERE is what he wrote for the New York Review of Books. “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will...
by Pier Marton | Nov 3, 2014 | Action, Art, Death, Ego, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Middle-East, Now, Peace, Politics, Security, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Wars, World
For the month of November 2014, I have been invited to be one of a number of guests and will post a statement on this site & with -empyre- by next week. The moderators, Alan Sondheim and Johannes Birringer are organizing the discussion around the topic of...
by Pier Marton | Oct 2, 2014 | Afri, Dance, Humor, Peace, Spectacle, Tech, Theater, Video, Wars
… and neither for war nor for business! “Intimacy, wonder, playfulness and grace… Is there a future for this in the performing arts? Absolutely, we’re just getting started.” – Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor at ETH Zurich,...