Razia Aziz, Naomi Foyle and Wendy Pye proposed this film poem in memory of John Berger.
Poem by Naomi Foyle
Film by Wendy Pye
Read by Naomi Foyle
Original Music by Razia Aziz : Harmonium, hang drum and vocals by Razia Aziz.
Photo of John Berger © Libby Hall
Funded by Arts Council England and the University of Chichester.
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.