The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger.
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 16504
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
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- Year
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The Seasons in Quincy (2016) is a celebrated essay film engaged with the thought and expression of acclaimed thinker John Berger in the final decade of his life. Through a unique filmmaking process it challenges the assertion that ‘the essay film is the expression of a single, situated authorial voice that enters into a dialogue with the spectator’ (Rascoli 2008, p.37). The post-production process facilitated by Stabb included two series of student editing workshops at The London Consortium and Birkbeck. Each included seminars and editing sessions with outputs feeding into the wider film project. This unique post- production process was important in capturing a diverse set of creative responses both to Berger’s critical works and the recordings made with him by the filmmakers including Stabb. The students’ personal micro-film essays were filtered into the editing process and provide further layers of storytelling and voice, expanding the breadth of perspective on the subject and further enhancing a key theme of the film, individual journeys of discovery through engagement with Berger’s body of work. At different stages of the film’s creation the eight core filmmakers address the film’s chapters from new positions, transgressing traditional filmmaking boundaries. This approach and Stabb’s role in successfully organising, assembling and interrogating a vast amount of audio-visual material, both primary recordings and archive, for the process of exploring key themes of memory, experience, storytelling, place and time within Berger’s work and life, result in a film that provides an original, multi-voiced, multi-layered portrait of a crucial intellect of our time. ‘A portrait of its subject in which we get closer to him as a personality than a more conventional film could ever take us’ (The Independent 15/02/2016). It has screened at the Berlin Film Festival, The National Portrait Gallery, BFI and global festivals.
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