Surrender: Ways of Hearing John Berger

2023 Tierney Walker from Surrender Ways of Hearing John Berger © Tina Grace

Surrender: Ways of Hearing John Berger (2023, 51min, Digital) by director-executive producer Tina Grace and camera-photographer-editor Tierney Walker, and commissioned by the British Library, casts a female lens on the radical thinker and broadcaster John Berger.

The first screenings took place at British Library 4-7th of July 2023.

For John Berger centenary, new screening at the British Film Institute, 14th of May 2026, 18h15 with other films during the event “Ways of Seeing Archives”. The screening is followed by a Q&A panel with director-executive producer Tina Grace, film maker Tierney Walker, composer Anna phoebe and British Library Head of Archive Jamie Andrews.

2023 Tierney Walker from Surrender Ways of Hearing John Berger © Tina Grace
2023 Tierney Walker from Surrender: Ways of Hearing John Berger © Tina Grace

JOHN BERGER

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.