John Berger
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Biography: 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.
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Stoke Newington, London, England
Birthday: November 05, 1926
Deathday: January 02, 2017
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Gender: Male
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Art, Poetry and Particle Physics
Overview: 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. In Ken McMullen's engaging and accessible film, Art, Poetry and Particle Physics, he travels to the world's biggest particle physics laboratory at CERN in Geneva. The film charts an extraordinary and wide-ranging series of discussions and collaborations between Berger and the leading theoretical and experimental physicists John March Russell and Michael Doser.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Walter, retour en résistance
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Letter from Gaza
Overview: Address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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12.Août.2002
Overview: 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. The film is a record of the methodical disruption of this building by inhuman and all-powerful machines. The voice-over consists of a phone call by the author John Berger (1926), who has written numerous and radical opinion pieces in favour of the people of Palestine.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-23
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The Economy of the Dead
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-09
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The Spectre of Hope
Overview: 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. In the film, Salgado presents his remarkable photographs in conversation with John Berger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-28
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Overview: The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox four-part documentary that visits him at his Alpine home
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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The New Man
Overview: 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. Faced with fatherhood, Josh spirals comically into an envious career funk. But life-threatening complications emerge- the couple are tested to the brink, confronting shattering losses. It's a portrait of our generation going through a revolution in reproduction- forced to find new ways to think about ourselves as creative beings. We hear from Slavoj Žižek, John Berger, Darian Leader (20,000 Days) and Zadie Smith. Universal yet still taboo, it's a film for everyone who has children, wants them, or still feels like a child themselves.
Genres: Drama Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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John Berger or The Art of Looking
Overview: 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. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-11
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Play Me Something
Overview: A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is delayed. At that moment, a stranger appears and begins telling the story of a summer romance in Venice.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-18
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Taşkafa, Stories of the Street
Overview: 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. The area’s ordinary people – taxi drivers, shopkeepers, street traders – care deeply about the welfare of the city’s street dogs and they tell us stories about Taşkafa and their other canine neighbours. The animals are a symbol of community living, where people (and dogs) look out for each other, but this is a community in transition; one from which dogs are starting to be expelled. Eccentric, amusing and very warm, the film is a powerful indictment of the impact of global politics and the economic appropriation of public space but, even more, it is a tribute to both the spirit of resistance and to city life that can accommodate people and dogs together.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Visioni di case che crollano
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Right to Work March
Overview: They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-19
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8 Poems of Emigration
Overview: "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. The narrative of the movie is revealed by the conflict between image and sound order. With the out-of-context (misuse) use of commercial images and music, the film creates a critical structure that opposes capitalism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2020-06-14
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About Time
Overview: Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Pig Earth
Overview: “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. All of which was given brilliant visual expression in the film through a series of beautifully edited sequences, each constructed from vivid and moving photographs of peasants and their lives, in black and white and colour, by John’s friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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Parting Shots from Animals
Overview: “Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in the UK, it consists of a diverse series of arresting ‘films within a film’, each presented as if made about us from the perspective of the animals whose lives we may appear to celebrate, but continue to exploit and to destroy. While John Berger doesn’t appear in the film and wasn’t directly involved in it’s making, he narrates to great effect the text he co-wrote to accompany the film’s provocative opening sequence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
Overview: 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. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith’s stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue take from Smith’s diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work developed from twin themes of common humanity and social responsibility.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-25
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