OMNIBUS: PIG EARTH (1979)
Directed by Michael Dibb
48 minutes
PIG EARTH marked John Berger's return to television after WAYS OF SEEING. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on Berger's book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction and a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John "the story teller", as if in the peasant's own voices. All of this 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 color, by Berger's friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.