Tom Overton

Writing John Berger's biography @AllenLaneBooks, Ed. JB's Portraits & Landscapes @versobooks, The Underground Sea @canongatebooks

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

@SheffMuseums It's free!

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

I co-edited a collection of John Berger’s work on miners & strikes. It’s based around a hard-to-find film he made about Zola’s novel Germinal; we turned into a visual essay + added other things inc. a wonderful JB interview with a miner called Joe Roberts https://t.co/EBJ7kl67g6

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

Matt Harle & I are doing a lunchtime talk (hopefully with interesting enhancements) about this at Weston Park Museum @SheffMuseums on 2nd July
https://t.co/IfNHhb6xvd

[Bristol Ideas @bristolideas]

This is a fine book. And very much in the Berger style. Thank you. As part of our legacy work we’re planning a project on Berger and hope to show this film.

[Josh Allen @JoshPAllen]

This👇 is a great little book

Brilliant how Berger's Open Uni documentary essay on Zola's Germinal is rendered through stills from the recording on the page

[Yasmin Gunaratnam @YasminGun]

New! The Underground Sea - brings together for the first time John Berger's work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes, edited by @tw_overton & Matthew Harle as a set of actions for today. Looking forward to reading https://t.co/6OBImECIcg

[Mark Robson (now with Bluesky too) @markrobsoninfo]

A real sense of urgency and that voice still resonant. Hopefully only the first volume to come out of Berger’s archives. Thank you ⁦@canongatebooks⁩ ⁦@tw_overton⁩

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

I had a go at summing up 40 years of @Complicite for their new website: https://t.co/FB6KLf2Ugl

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

I wrote a short @guardianobits piece about Libby Hall -- photographer, writer, collector of dog photographs and dear friend of John Berger https://t.co/h2pKoXJEwm

[BFI @BFI]

Alain Tanner (1929-2022) was a pioneering filmmaker who helped make Swiss cinema possible. https://t.co/7t75Didkq2

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

I wrote @SightSoundmag an obituary of Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker & long-term collaborator with John Berger
https://t.co/g6AyLdG78D

[Whitechapel Gallery @_TheWhitechapel]

We're excited to launch 2021 with a first! A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb.

Across 11 weeks, in 52 films and 3 live online conversations, we celebrate the work of multi award winning documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb. Watch this space every Friday https://t.co/AJeL8ftHt9

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

Hans Memling, Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin, 1475 or 79

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

Presented not donated

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

John Berger's mentor Frederick Antal owned this when he was visiting him every week 'like a messenger reporting to a general' in the 50s.

Francesco Solimena, Portrait of a Lady, c.1740, donated to @NationalGallery by Antal's widow in 1955

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

'Zurbarán's art of the interior suits our fear of the outside' - John Berger, 1988

(The House in Nazareth, c.1640, @ClevelandArt)

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

@GregoryEvans It seems entirely possible but I don't have any evidence in front of me, sorry!

[Tom Overton @tw_overton]

John Berger, notes on being drunk, 1950s