John Berger
Birthday: 1926-11-05
Place of Birth: Stoke Newington, London, England
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.
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Art, Poetry and Particle Physics
John Berger is one of our most celebrated and respected writers and broadcasters. A former winner of...
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12.Août.2002
12 August 2002 is the date which was printed on every shot in this film by the memory of the camera....
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The Economy of the Dead
Short super-8 film capturing the changes taking place in Soho and questioned by John Berger's essay ...
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The Spectre of Hope
The Spectre of Hope is based on the latest work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Salgado spent 6 y...
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
The Ways of Seeing writer is celebrated by Tilda Swinton and her fellow admirers in an unorthodox fo...
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The New Man
A creative documentary about becoming a parent... and how to reconceive yourself. Fiction director J...
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John Berger or The Art of Looking
Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looki...
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Play Me Something
A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is d...
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Taşkafa, Stories of the Street
Taşkafa is a real dog and also a legend on the streets of Istanbul. John Berger begins Taşkafa’s sto...
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Visioni di case che crollano
The countryside around the Po delta is dotted with abandoned houses and farmhouses. The landscape ap...
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Right to Work March
They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London....
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8 Poems of Emigration
"8 Poems of Emigration" is a found footage film that focuses on the migration crisis. The film, whil...
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About Time
Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger....
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Pig Earth
“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly...
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Parting Shots from Animals
“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration wi...
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W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult
The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Jap...
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The Embrace: An Essay by John Berger
A BBC documentary in which art critic John Berger speaks about the meaning of human bodies in Rembra...
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A City at Chandigarh
Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned ...
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Arrows of Time
An experimental journey to trace the lost ‘Arrows of Time’. Diary footage from the Director’s own ob...
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Walk Me Home
A few hours spent together give a young woman and an older man a new perspective on life....
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Germinal
In this programme John Berger talks about Zola's novel 'Germinal' and illustrates his subject with e...
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