Parting Shots from Animals

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 52 min
  • Premiere: 1980. January 1.

“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in the UK, it consists of a diverse series of arresting ‘films within a film’, each presented as if made about us from the perspective of the animals whose lives we may appear to celebrate, but continue to exploit and to destroy. While John Berger doesn’t appear in the film and wasn’t directly involved in it’s making, he narrates to great effect the text he co-wrote to accompany the film’s provocative opening sequence.

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John Berger

Self (narrator)

Crew

Malcolm Kipling

Cinematography

Directing

Mike Dibb

Director

Writing

John Berger

Writer

Crew

Malcolm Kipling

Cinematography

Directing

Mike Dibb

Director

Writing

John Berger

Writer