In 1973 Berger abandoned the metropolis to live in the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. He realized that subsistence peasant farming, which had sustained humanity for millennia, was drawing to an historical close. He determined to spend the rest of his life bearing witness to this vanishing existence, not least by participating in it. Berger’s trilogy Into their Labours chronicles the peasant life of this Alpine village and its surrounding countryside. Our portrait places Berger in the rhythm of the seasons in Quincy.
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Colin MacCabe is a literary critic and film producer. For more than thirty years he has taught at the University of Pittsburgh where he is Distinguished Professor of English and Film
Bartek Dziadosz is director of the Derek Jarman Lab. He was Director of Photography on Spring, A Song for Politics andHarvest, Co-Director of A Song for Politics and Editor of Harvest. Dziadosz combines his doctoral research on the theory of editing with a busy career filming and editing.
In 1973 Berger abandoned the metropolis to live in the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. He realized that subsistence peasant farming, which had sustained humanity for millennia, was drawing to an historical close. He determined to spend the rest of his life bearing witness to this vanishing existence, not least by participating in it. Berger’s trilogy Into their Labours chronicles the peasant life of this Alpine village and its surrounding countryside. Our portrait places Berger in the rhythm of the seasons in Quincy.
Tilda Swinton has been involved with filmmaking in one way or another for thirty years. The first film she worked on wasCaravaggio which won a Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 1985, the first of the seven films she made with Derek Jarman before his death in 1994.