John Berger or The Art of Looking (2016)

5.2/10 • 55 min • Documentary

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.

Cast

John Berger

Self - Subject

Vincent Berger

Self

Simon McBurney

Self

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