Special Programme "Meeting with Tilda"  

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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger

 The art historian and writer John Berger is a radical humanist. This is how he is described by his follower and companion Tilda Swinton. He has changed the thinking of second-half  XX century generation in Britain to which Tilda Swinton has belonged. She read the famous John Berger’s book “Ways of Seeing” during her teens. Later, the mature artist Tilda became a good friend of him. They met each other in London, but J. Berger abandoned the metropolis to live in Alpine village of Quincy and to meditate upon farming. He realized that subsistence peasant farming, which had sustained humanity for millennia, was drawing to an historical close. Tilda Swinton decided to make a film about John Berger in this area surrounded by Alpes. The most important ideas of the intellectual are revealed through the warm conversations with his close friends. In the tiny  Berger’s kitchen, Tilda Swinton peels apples for a pie. Her kids bring presents from their farm to J. Berger’s son who still lives there and John Berger gives them raspberries. The film is made of four different parts that were supposed to be screen at art galleries. In these short movies the topics of left-wing politics, parents and children, humans and animals, death and life are discussed. It became the intellectual feauture film – an intimate multilayered portrait of John Berger.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton born in London in 1960, is actress, director and social activist. She has won numerous awards for her performances in outstanding roles in arthouse films. She worked frequently with Derek Jarman (“Caravaggio”). Her famous roles include “Orlando”, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, Jim Jarmusch’s movies. Tilda Swinton performed in Modern Art Museum (MoMA) and “The Serpentine” galleries. She has opened the school for alternative education in Scotland.

Colin MacCabe

An actor, literary critic and film producer who has also been a professor in film and English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA for over 30 years. In 2012 he founded the “Derek Jarman Lab”.

Christopher Roth

Born in Munich, he is an artist and film director. He won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2002 Berlinale for “Baader”. His work as an artist has appeared at exhibitions including the Venice and São Paulo Biennales.

Bartek Dziadosz

After studying in Krakow and London, he has been working as a director and editor. His documentary “The Trouble With Being Human These Days” has screened at numerous festivals.

Film sessions

09.22 Friday
  • Skalvija (Vilnius) 20:30 Presentation

09.23 Saturday
  • Skalvija (Vilnius) 16:00 Presentation


Information

Directors: Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Tilda Swinton, Bartek Dziadosz
Screenplay: Tilda Swinton, Christopher Roth, Ben Lerner
Cinematography: Bartek Dziadosz, Filipa César
Editing: Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz
Music: Simon Fisher Turner
Sound: Walter Stabb
Producers: Lily Ford, Colin MacCabe
Production: The Derek Jarman Lab
United Kingdom, 2016, orig. language, english, lithuanian subtitle, 90'