John Berger

  • Paul Carlin – The Spectre of Hope (2001)

    2001-2010DocumentaryPaul CarlinUnited Kingdom

    Introduction
    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.Read More »

  • John Berger and Michael Silverblatt – Conversations 1 and 2 (2002)

    2001-2010DocumentaryJohn Berger and Michael SilverblattUSA

    John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, whose body of work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer’s words, “the enduring mystery of great art and the lived experience of the oppressed.”

    He is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years, who has explored the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics and experience and expression in a series of novels, book works, essays, plays, films, photographic collaborations and performances, unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach. His television series and book Ways of Seeing revolutionized the way that Fine Art is read and understood, while his engagement with European peasantry and migration in the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours and A Seventh Man stand as models of empathy and insight.

    John Berger in conversation with Michael Silverblatt at Berger’s home, a working farm, in Quincy, Mieussy, France, October 2002. Silverblatt is the host of the radio interview program, Bookworm.Read More »

  • John Berger and Noam Chomsky – Times of Crisis (2014)

    2011-2020John Berger and Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyUSA

    Exclusive material from writer, artist, critic John Berger and a virtual response and conversation with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. This event took place at Dartmouth College as part of GRID’s 2014 Spring Public Lecture Series: Times of Crisis

    Note, Berger’s material is audio only and is accompanied by still images, and Chomsky is on a live video link in this session.Read More »

  • John Berger and Susan Sontag – To Tell A Story [Voices] (1983)

    1981-1990ArthouseDocumentaryJohn Berger and Susan SontagUnited Kingdom

    ““Somebody dies,” says John Berger. “It’s not just a question of tact that one then says, well, perhaps it is possible to tell that story,” but “it’s because, after that death, one can read that life. The life becomes readable.” His interlocutor, a certain Susan Sontag, interjects: “A person who dies at 37 is not the same as a person who dies at 77.” True, he replies, “but it can be somebody who dies at 90. The life becomes readable to the storyteller, to the writer. Then she or he can begin to write.” Berger, the consummate storyteller as well as thinker about stories, left behind these and millions of other memorable words, spoken and written, when he yesterday passed away at age 90 himself.Read More »

  • Alain Tanner – Une ville à Chandigarh aka A City at Chandigarh (1966)

    1961-1970Alain TannerArchitectureDocumentarySwitzerland

    When, in 1947, a portion of Punjab province was assigned to the newly created
    Pakistani State, Albert Mayer began planning a new capital for the portion which
    remained in the possession of India. Le Corbusier had been responsible since the
    1950s for general planning and, more particularly, for large-scale buildings typical
    of the governmental sector. A year after the death of Le Corbusier, Alain Tanner
    began shooting his film in a city still partially under construction, or even, in certain
    places, at the planning stage. The inhabitants of the metropolis, however, already
    numbered some 120,000.Read More »

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