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John Peter Berger (/ˈbɜːrdʒər/; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, is often used as a university text. He lived in France for over fifty years.
Total trailers found: 29
09 December 2017
Short super-8 film capturing the changes taking place in Soho and questioned by John Berger's essay on twelve theses on the economy of the dead.
21 February 1989
This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter some of the herd.
21 June 1979
“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John ‘the story teller’, as if in the peasant’s own voices.
01 January 1980
“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence.
11 June 2016
Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art critic whose ground-breaking work on seeing has shaped our understanding of the concept for over five decades.
15 October 2013
Taşkafa is a real dog and also a legend on the streets of Istanbul. John Berger begins Taşkafa’s story, reading from his novel, King, the story of the disappearance of a community told from a dog’s perspective.
27 October 1971
Pierre and Paul, journalist and writer respectively, team up to write a screenplay based on the real story of a young woman accused by her uncle of trying to kill him.
18 February 1989
A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is delayed.
10 February 2004
John Berger is one of our most celebrated and respected writers and broadcasters. A former winner of the Booker Prize, he also wrote one of the most influential books on art of our time, Ways of Seeing, which became a landmark documentary series on BBC Television.
23 April 2012
12 August 2002 is the date which was printed on every shot in this film by the memory of the camera. On that day a huge tower which disrupted the north wing of an abandoned castle was torn down, floor by floor.
14 June 2020
"8 Poems of Emigration" is a found footage film that focuses on the migration crisis. The film, while focusing on the immigration and immigration issue caused by the wild global capitalism, consists of the images and the found footage from the recording of the work named "8 Poetry of Immigration" that John Berger read to the audience in 2007 at the Fine Arts Center in Madrid.
07 May 2008
Address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature
01 December 1976
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.
11 September 1974
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy.
29 August 1988
An old cowherd from Haute-Savoie who continues to raise his animals, according to the old methods, falls in love with a young shepherdess.
19 October 1972
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
18 November 2016
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director Josh Appignanesi turns the camera on himself and his wife as they undergo the ordeal of becoming parents in the era of man-children and assisted reproduction.
05 March 1992
A BBC documentary in which art critic John Berger speaks about the meaning of human bodies in Rembrandt's painting.
23 June 2017
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox foe
28 January 2002
The Spectre of Hope is based on the latest work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Salgado spent 6 years traveling to over 40 countries, taking pictures of globalization and its consequences - most notably, the mass migrations of populations around the world.
01 February 1985
Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger.
01 October 1966
Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
01 January 2002
The countryside around the Po delta is dotted with abandoned houses and farmhouses. The landscape appears desertic, almost humanless.
25 September 1989
The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village — all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W.
23 March 1973
A young Swiss couple, Vincent and Françoise, plan to leave Geneva and settle in Africa: a friend of theirs living in Algeria promises to give them a job there.
16 July 1993
A few hours spent together give a young woman and an older man a new perspective on life.
11 July 2007
An experimental journey to trace the lost ‘Arrows of Time’. Diary footage from the Director’s own observations at The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center are interwoven with poetry and commentary from cultural visionaries of the past such as Joseph Beuys and Jacques Derrida.
18 July 1973
In this programme John Berger talks about Zola's novel 'Germinal' and illustrates his subject with extensive use of film of Creswell and its colliery.
