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Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences Expertise: Holocaust, Jewish identity, filmmaking, spirituality, videomaking, violence Bio: Marton is a video maker/new media artist and writer whose work addresses issues of ethnicity, spirituality, audience passivity, and violence. Titles include Collected Works: 1979-1984, a series of shorts; Say I'm A Jew, which collects interviews with the children of Holocaust survivors; and (are we and/or do we) LIKE MEN, a study of the place of violence in men's lives. Marton currently is in the process of raising finishing funds for a one-hour project about the Jewish holidays, Time To Be (Jews in Paradise), featuring interviews with Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Arthur Green, Lawrence Kushner, Lynn Gottlieb, Arthur Waskow, David Zeller and many others. WUSTL Contact Information:
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Additional Background: Marton's work has been exhibited at dozens of venues, including the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jewish Museum, all in New York; the Beaubourg Museum in Paris; the Berlin Film Festival and French Television. His work is included in the collections of MOMA, the Beaubourg, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Japan Victor Corporation Archives in Japan. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Marton has taught courses in film and video production as well as computer graphics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (where he also served as chairperson of the production program), UCLA, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Carnegie Mellon University and Indiana University, among others. He has published articles and reviews in New Art Examiner, La Opinión and Cahiers du Cinéma, among others, and recently contributed an essay, Disaster Art: A Plea against the Fluff, to the forthcoming collection Absence/Present: Essays and Reflections on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press). A member of the Board of Advisors for the St. Louis Holocaust Museum, Marton served as a camera person for the Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project in1996/1997. |
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