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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...

I Am Not Your Negro – A Review

by Pier Marton | Feb 3, 2017 | Afri, Doc, Human Rights, Racism, Review, US, Violence

9.jpg#IAMNOTYOURNEGRO Nominated for a 2017 Oscar … because of the bad niggers we were. And we know that, for the perpetuation of this system, we have all been mercilessly brutalized, and have been told nothing but lies, lies about ourselves and our kinsmen and our...

Bogdan’s Journey: a brief interview with Larry Loewinger

by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2016 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Doc, Film, Genocide, History, Jewish, Peace, Racism, Religion, Shoah, STL, Violence, Women

— With this update because of another St. Louis screening. — The 2016 St. Louis International Film Festival features 420 films from 72 countries; it is clearly impossible to have seen them all! Yet, by serving on a couple of committees this year, I can easily...

Francofonia by Sokurov

by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2016 | Art, Complexity, Death, Doc, Film, France, History, Ideas, Mystery, Review, STL, Time, Violence, Wars

My Review I try not to tell people something. — Sokurov We eagerly divide up our lives into past, present, future (and history), and act as if the riddle of time, this most perplexing mystery, had been solved. Yet, a few scientists, philosophers, artists, poets,...

The Void and its Pressure

by Pier Marton | Jan 1, 2016 | Art, Care, Complexity, Death, Doc, Education, Ego, Hispanic, Ideas, NON, Now, Peace, Poet, Site, Spectacle, Text, The Future, Time, Violence, Wars, Women, Words, World, Youth

— January 1st – World-Wide Wishful Thinking Day — El Vacío y su Presión translated into English as The Void and its Pressure ENGLISH TRANSLATION FROM Spanish Version & Original Links –> Primera Parte & Segunda Parte El vacío y su presión (I & II)...

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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