The Interrupters

by Pier Marton | Feb 13, 2012 | Afri, Care, Death, Film, Health, Human Rights, Native, Politics, Racism, Sci/Nat, STL, Wars, Women

To Javon Thompson
A Promising Student
of mine (at Carnegie Mellon)
– shot and killed at age 18 –

THE INTERRUPTERS
played on Frontline (PBS)
Tuesday February 13

This interview on Fresh Air (NPR)
with its director, Steve James
(of “Hoop Dreams” fame)
and the great Ameena Matthews
is a good introduction to the film.

Check out CeaseFire
in Chicago!
The DVD is available from Feb. 13 on.

+
a Retrospective of Steve James’s Films
with a WORKSHOP with S. J.
at Webster U. in St. Louis
at the end of April

Latest official trailer by Kartemquin

Older Trailer

News & Olds

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