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“WHAT NOW?!” Post-Zoom Info

by Pier Marton | Mar 15, 2022 | Art, Ego, Ideas, Photo, Politics, Wars, Women

On March 9, 2022, Pier Marton gave the following Zoom presentation (from the flyer below): WHAT NOW?! What could be missing from our conversations. – Can we engage in a realm Marton calls “knowLEDGE” – Art and non-art, academia vs “real life,” etc. – what fits or...

St. Louis International Film Festival does it again: SLIFF BUZZ 2019

by Pier Marton | Nov 8, 2019 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Death, Doc, Film, France, Genocide, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Magyar, Politics, Shoah, STL, Wars, Women

Post-Festival Update! [Like all SLIFFs and good cinema, surprises are what makes a good festival, and a good film. Some of the goods came in the shape of two films that sent me “far away” – to places I would not easily travel to (“look-ma no T.S.A.”): Kurdistan and...

2018 “SLIFF BUZZ” winners

by Pier Marton | Nov 11, 2018 | Asia, Complexity, Doc, Eco, Ego, Human Rights, Magyar, Peace, STL, Wars, Women, World

There are two outstanding organizations in St. Louis that I particularly appreciate. One is the International Institute – I hope to write about them too some day, and help them out too – and Cinema St. Louis, and more specifically its International Film Festival. Both...

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....

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