OMNIBUS: PARTING SHOTS FROM ANIMALS (1980)
Directed by Michael Dibb
50 minutes
PARTING SHOTS FROM ANIMALS was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in the UK, it consists of a diverse series of arresting "films within a film", each presented as if made about humanity from the perspective of the animals whose lives we may appear to celebrate, but continue to exploit and to destroy. While Berger doesn't appear in the film and wasn't directly involved in its making, he narrates to great effect the text he co-wrote to accompany the film's provocative opening sequence.