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Tom Overton

Tom Overton is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the archives of the Barbican and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He edited Portraits: John Berger on Artists and Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Verso, 2015 and 2016)and is writing Berger’s biography, and a book on archives and migration (Allen Lane). He tweets at @tw_overton and collects his articles at overton.tw.



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Oberhausen Film Festival

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June 2017

Tom Overton

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June 2017

Such film festivals – those extraordinary clusters of images, transports of light, of virtual worlds scattered across a real geography – pale in scale...
Plastic Words

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March 2015

Tom Overton

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March 2015

Plastic Words was a six-week series of thirteen events which described itself as ‘mining the contested space between contemporary literature and art’. It did...

READ NEXT

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May 2015

In the Light of Ras Tafari

Anna Della Subin

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May 2015

‘A STRANGE NEW FISH EMITS A BLINDING GREEN LIGHT’, the article in National Geographic announced. Off the coast of...

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September 2015

The Afternoon

Wolfgang Hilbig

TR. Isabel Fargo Cole

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September 2015

Nothing new on Bahnhofstrasse! — These are the first words to occur to me upon arrival. With the word...

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Issue No. 5

The White Review No. 5 Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 5

One of the two editors of The White Review recently committed a faux pas by reacting with undisguised and indeed...

 

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