List of works and copyright material, in order of appearance
Ways of Listening
Book: John Berger, Pages of the Wound: Poems, Drawings, Photographs, 1956-96 (London: Bloomsbury, 1996).
Book: John Berger, Berger on Drawing, ed. Jim Savage, 2nd ed. (Aghabillogne, Co Cork: Occasional Press, 2007).
Painting: Yves Berger ‘Two Figures’ (oil and casein on canvas). Yves Berger is represented by Artspace Gallery.
Film excerpt: Play Me Something (1989). Directed by Timothy Neat. Produced by Colin MacCabe and Kate Swan. UK: British Film Institute (BFI), Film Four International, Grampian Television, Scottish Film Production Fund. Distributor: BFI (1989) UK theatrical.
Film excerpt: Baader (2002) directed by Christopher Roth. Produced by Mark Egerton, Stephan Fruth, Mark Gläser, Christopher Roth. Germany: 72 Film, Leading Edge Producciones, SellOutPictures. Distributors: Prokino Filmverleih (2002) (Germany) (theatrical); Scanbox Entertainment (2009) (Finland) (DVD); Universum Film (UFA) (2003) (Germany) (DVD).
Quote: ‘To protest is to refuse being reduced to a zero and to an enforced silence…one protests (by building a barricade, taking up arms, going on a hunger strike, liking arms, shouting, writing) in order to save the present moment, whatever the future holds.’ From John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook (London: Verso Books, 2015).
Poem: John Berger, ‘Self-Portrait 1914-18’ in Pages of the Wound: Poems, Drawings, Photographs, 1956-96 (London: Bloomsbury, 1996).
Quote: ‘A friend came to see me in a dream from far away…’ From John Berger and Jean Mohr, A Seventh Man, 2nd ed. (London: Verso Books, 2010).
Film excerpt: Play Me Something (1989). Directed by Timothy Neat. Produced by Colin MacCabe and Kate Swan. UK: British Film Institute (BFI), Film Four International, Grampian Television, Scottish Film Production Fund. Distributor: BFI (1989) UK theatrical.
Spring
Quote: ‘Animals came from over the horizon…’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Film excerpt: Once Upon a Time (1983). Directed by Mike Dibb. UK: Channel Four – Third Eye Productions.
Quote: ‘And each lion was Lion…’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Quote: ‘A peasant becomes fond of his…’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Book: John Berger, Pig Earth (London: Bloomsbury, 1999).
Quote: ‘To each kind of animal, Pépé spoke in a different voice…’, from John Berger, Pig Earth (London: Bloomsbury, 1999).
Film excerpt: Parting Shots from Animals (1980), directed by Mike Dibb and Christopher Rawlence. Produced by Leslie Megahey (Executive producer, Omnibus) and Mike Dibb. UK: BBC.
Quote: ‘Man becomes aware of himself, returning the look…’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Quote: ‘Caught naked, in silence, by the gaze of an animal, for example the eyes of my cat…’, from Jacques Derrida, ‘The Animal That Therefore I Am’, The Animal That Therefore I Am, tr. David Wills, ed. Marie-Louise Mallet (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008).
Film excerpt: Derrida (2002) directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman. Produced by Gil Kofman and Amy Ziering Kofman. US: Jane Doe Films. Distributors: Eurozoom (France) (All media); Zeitgeist Films (all media). (DVD extra).
Painting: A Woman and Boy with Animals at a Ford by Karel Dujardin (oil on canvas, 1657), The National Gallery, London.
Quote: ‘With their parallel lives…’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Painting: Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice by Pietro Longhi (oil on canvas, c. 1751), The National Gallery, London.
Quote: ‘Between two men the two abysses are, in principle, bridged by language…’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Song: ‘Flipper’ original theme (lyrics by Henry Vars, music by William Dunham).
Heidegger references: Martin Heidegger, ‘The Beginning of the Comparative Examination, Taking the Intermediate Thesis That the Animal Is Poor in World as Our Point of Departure’, in The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, trans. By William McNeil and Nicholas Walker (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. by Joan Stambaugh (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010).
Painting: Whistlejacket by George Stubbs (oil on canvas, c.1762), The National Gallery, London.
Quote: ‘And each lion was Lion.’, from John Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals?’, Why Look at Animals? (London: Penguin, 2009).
Poem: John Berger, 'They are the last', in Collected Poems (Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2014).
Song: L'emploi du moi by La Fiancée (2010). Live recording at the Musée du Jouet, Brussels © Bruxelles Ma Belle.
A Song For Politics
Song: L'Appel du Komintern (lyrics by Franz Jahnke, music by Hans Eisler)
TV excerpts: Drawn From Life, Episode 3 directed by Mike Wooller. Granada Television, 23 October 1961.
Ways of Seeing, Part 4 directed by Michael Dibb. BBC Television, 29 January 1972.
Ways of Seeing, Part 2 directed by Michael Dibb. BBC Television, 15 January 1972.
Before My Time, Episode 3: ‘Tomorrow Couldn’t be Worse’ directed by David Cunliffe. Granada, August 1963
Is Art Necessary?, Episode 3: ‘Should Every Picture Tell a Story?’ directed by Leonard Brett. Associated Television, 14 April 1958.
Monitor, ‘Art and Delusion: Three Ways of Looking at the World’, edited by Jonathan Miller. BBC Television, 13 July 1965.
Why Leger? directed by Michael Gill. BBC Television 13 June 1965.
John Berger accepting the Booker Prize for Fiction at the Café Royal in London on 23 November 1972. BBC4 clip on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otu4tjqrOk0
Music: Theme by William Alwyn from Drawn From Life, Episode 3, Dir. Mike Wooller. Granada Television, 23 October 1961.
Song: Bandiera Rossa (lyrics by Carlo Tuzzi)
Song: The Red Flag (lyrics by Jim Connell, music by Ernst Anschütz)
Artwork: Iraq War Ends, The Yes Men (2008) http://www.nytimes-se.com/
Song: Die Einheitsfront (lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Hans Eisler)
Song: Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman (Chinese revolutionary song)
Song: Bella Ciao (Italian partisan song)
Song: L’Internationale (lyrics by Eugène Pottier, music by Pierre Degeyter
Book: John Berger and Jean Mohr, A Seventh Man, 2nd ed. (London: Verso Books, 2010)
Poem: Attila József, ‘The Seventh’, Winter Night: Selected Poems of Attila József, trans. by John Bátki (Corvina Books Ltd., 1997)
Photograph: John Berger by Jean Mohr. Berger family collection
Music: Double Lesson Cello Spoot! (music by Simon Fisher Turner)
Photographs: by Jean Mohr from John Berger and Jean Mohr, A Seventh Man, 2nd ed. (London: Verso Books, 2010)
Harvest
Film excerpt: Once Upon a Time (1983). Directed by Mike Dibb. UK: Channel Four – Third Eye Productions.
Photographs: John Berger, Yves Berger and friends by Jean Mohr. Berger family collection.
Print: 'Portrait of Mélina' (monoprint) by Jules Langlin
Paintings by Yves Berger: 'Into my arms' (casein and oil on canvas)
'Torso and head' (oil on canvas)
'Ancient portrait' (casein and oil on canvas)
'Head' (casein on canvas)
Yves Berger is represented by Artspace Gallery.
