John Berger

8 Poems of Emigration (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 Economy of the Dead (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. ...

The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (2017)

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 ...

The New Man (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 ...

John Berger or The Art of Looking (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 decad ...

Taşkafa, Stories of the Street (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. The area's ordinary people – taxi drivers ...

12.Août.2002 (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. The film is a record of the methodical disrup ...

Walter, retour en résistance (2009)

Letter from Gaza (2008)

Address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature ...

Art, Poetry and Particle Physics (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 Tel ...

The Spectre of Hope (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 wor ...

Visioni di case che crollano (2002)

The countryside around the Po delta is dotted with abandoned houses and farmhouses. The landscape appears desertic, almost humanless. Some people shares stories about their bond with the land while the italian writer Gianni Celati documents the tragedy and ...

W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult (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. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith's stunning photo ...

Play Me Something (1989)

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. ...

About Time (1985)

Film Essay based on "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos" by John Berger. ...

Parting Shots from Animals (1980)

"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 ...

Pig Earth (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 experienc ...

Right to Work March (1972)

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London. ...

A City at Chandigarh (1966)

Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier. ...

The Economy of the Dead (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. ...

12.Août.2002 (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. The film is a record of the methodical disrup ...

Heartland (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. The community launches a campaign agains ...

Play Me Something (1989)

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. ...

L'écho (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. ...

About Time (1985)

Film Essay based on "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos" by John Berger. ...

Parting Shots from Animals (1980)

"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 ...

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts ...

The Middle of the World (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. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Wher ...

Return from Africa (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. ...

The Salamander (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. They decide to meet her. ...

A City at Chandigarh (1966)

Documentary on the construction of Chandigarh, the new capital of the Indian Punjab region, planned by Albert Mayer and Swiss architect Le Corbusier. ...