Jean Mohr

Critique littéraire, auteur de fiction, essayiste politique engagé à gauche, poète et peintre londonien d’origine et savoyard d’adoption, John Berger n’a cessé de revenir, au cours de sa carrière, sur les multiples facettes de son sujet de prédilection : le regard.

“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John ‘the story teller’, as if in the peasant’s own voices. All of which was given brilliant visual expression in the film through a series of beautifully edited sequences, each constructed from vivid and moving photographs of peasants and their lives, in black and white and colour, by John’s friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.

Entre 1954-1962, de cent à trois cent jeunes Français refusèrent de participer à la guerre d’Algérie. Ces réfractaires, soldats ou appelés étaient non-violents ou anticolonialistes. Certains se réfugièrent en Suisse où des citoyens suisses leur vinrent en aide, alors qu’en France ils étaient condamnés comme traîtres à la patrie. En 1962, quelques mois après l’Indépendance, Villi Hermann se rendit dans une région dévastée par la guerre proche de la frontière algéro-marocaine, afin d’aider à la reconstruction d’une école. En 2016 il est retourné en Algérie et a retrouvé ses anciens élèves. Il a aussi rencontré des réfractaires français, habitant aujourd’hui en France ou en Suisse.

A self-potrait of the influent Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget.

A group of individuals are stranded at a small island airport when the flight from the mainland is delayed. At that moment, a stranger appears and begins telling the story of a summer romance in Venice.

Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger.

“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John ‘the story teller’, as if in the peasant’s own voices. All of which was given brilliant visual expression in the film through a series of beautifully edited sequences, each constructed from vivid and moving photographs of peasants and their lives, in black and white and colour, by John’s friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.

Series of four programmes in which writer John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr question the nature and practice of photography. GB. Annalogue, for the BBC. BBC2 tx 07/05/1989 - 28/05/1989

Series of four programmes in which writer John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr question the nature and practice of photography. GB. Annalogue, for the BBC. BBC2 tx 07/05/1989 - 28/05/1989

Series of four programmes in which writer John Berger and photographer Jean Mohr question the nature and practice of photography. GB. Annalogue, for the BBC. BBC2 tx 07/05/1989 - 28/05/1989