Pig Earth

Pig Earth marked John Berger's first return to television since Ways of Seeing. The film, predominantly composed of still photographs, adapts Berger's book of the same name, a work that functions as both fiction and a historical portrait of French peasant life, voiced by John the storyteller, as if spoken by the peasants themselves. This narrative is given extraordinary visual expression through a sequence of finely edited segments, each built from vivid, moving photographs of peasants and their daily existence, rendered in black-and-white and color, captured by John's longtime friend and collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.