Play Me Something + Ways of Listening

Tilda Swinton stars in a playful and ingenious cine-essay from art critic John Berger and author/filmmaker Timothy Neat. Berger himself plays a mysterious storyteller who regales waiting passengers at the tiny Hebridean airport of Barra with wild tales of Venetian peasants. Mixing myriad textures and sources – colour, black and white, 16mm, 35mm and still photographs – Play Me Something is a meta-textural meditation on storytelling, people and places. Th feature will be preceded by Ways of Listening, a chapter from The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger. This excerpt centres on a conversation between Berger and Tilda Swinton in his snow-bound kitchen in the village of Quincy. Friends and collaborators since the 1980s, they use Berger’s poems and drawings to explore elements of their shared experience, and speak frankly about fathers, history and passing on generational experience. With a recorded introduction from writer Lisa Appignanesi, longtime friend and collaborator of Berger.