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John Berger: The Art of Looking (2016)

aka: John Berger or the Art of Looking

Subject

Art

Distribution

Out of distribution

Film exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who has shaped our understanding of the concept of seeing.

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John Berger with Lisa Appignanesi (1985 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

Lisa Appignanesi introduces Berger’s career as a writer, art critic, scriptwriter and painter. Berger discusses his work, methods of writing, attitudes to time, death and humour.

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Time and Light (1988 Video)

Director

Roger Elsgood

Subject

Art

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

John Berger’s expression of the nature of photography is presented over a sequence of photographs that represent the empirical, rhetorical and aesthetic within photography. The relationship between...

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

aka: The Seasons in Quincy

Director

Colin MacCabe; Christopher Roth; Tilda Swinton; Bartek Dziadosz

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £9.99

A four-part cinematic portrait of artist, philosopher and writer John Berger. In 1973, Berger moved from urban London to the tiny village of Quincy. These shorts examine different aspects of Berger’s life...

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Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, The (1994 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. ? min.

Video recording of a performance of ‘The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol’, based on a story by John Berger, directed by Simon McBurney, at the Riverside Studios, London, in April 1994.

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Vertical Line, The (1999 Audio)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Compact disc., 1999 sale: £16.95 (inclusive)

An audio recording of a performance in which John Berger, Simon McBurney and Sandra Voe experience a journey on the imaginary Vertical Line, travelling through time from the disused Aldwych underground...

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Pioneers in Art and Science: Art, Poetry and Particle Physics (2005)

Subject

Arts and Humanities; Literature; Physics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £14.99

John Berger travels to the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory at CERN in Geneva to confront physicists with poetry. The film charts an extraordinary and wide-ranging series of discussions and...

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Titian (2007)

Director

Jake Auerbach

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 mins), £7.75

Documentary. Titian has been called the "first great 20th Century Artist". His fresh interpretations of old stories from mythology, and his constant reinvention of the portrait, have inspired artists for...

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Taskafa: Stories of the Street; Estate, A Reverie (2013)

Director

Andrea Luka Zimmerman

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 177 minutes), £12.99

Ta kafa: Stories of the Street (2013) is a film about resistance and co-existence told through the lives of the street dogs of Istanbul featuring text and readings by the late artist, novelist and poet John...

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Sheepherder’s Homecoming, A (1996 Video)

Director

Birch Carpenter; Allen Moore; Louis Werner

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch. Eventually he returns home to a welcoming family and an uncertain future, for he must find work, the lack of which led him to...

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