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John Berger or The Art of Looking

2016 · 55 min

A quiet, thoughtful portrait that invites you to slow down and look closely at images, stories and a long life of seeing.

Directed by: Cordelia Dvorak
Genres: Documentary
Starring: John Berger, Selçuk Demirel, Katya Berger Andreadakis

Overview: 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 decades. The film explores how paintings become narratives and stories turn into images, and rarely does anybody demonstrate this as poignantly as Berger.

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Directed by: Cordelia Dvorak
Genres: Documentary
Starring: John Berger, Selçuk Demirel, Katya Berger Andreadakis

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
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Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
memory
politics
aging
identity
Places: countryside
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Cordelia Dvorak
Starring: John Berger, Selçuk Demirel, Katya Berger Andreadakis, John Christie, Jean Mohr, Yves Berger, Louis Sauge, Vincent Berger
Cinematography: Piotr Rosołowski
Runtime: 55 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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