Early Pearls (Life and Film)

by Pier Marton | May 1, 2011 | Art, Care, Ego, Exp, Film, Health, Humor, Ideas, Photo, Poet, Popular, STL

On the last day of class I asked my students what they had learned in my beginning level video production course.
With almost half of them just Freshmen, I was surprised by their responses – fortune cookie size pearls of wisdom!
I had told them jokingly at various times that I had fantasized about a “Life, Film and Media Studies” department but had had to settle for just “Film and Media Studies.”

… I used to describe myself to my students as “the irritant, that grain of sand that will bother you enough so that in time you will produce a pearl.”

I was glad they had learned much more than just how to edit and some keyboard shortcuts.
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BREAK THE SURFACE
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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