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Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film Edvard Munch. La Commune (Paris, 1871) reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors. In 2004 he also wrote a book, Media Crisis, an engaged essay about the media crisis, the monoform and, foremost, the lack of debate around the construction of new forms of audiovisual media. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Watkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Oct 29, 1935 In Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie The Diary of an Unknown Soldier 1959-01-02
Latest Project:
Movie The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins 2001-09-07
Known For
Poster of The Journey
Poster of Edvard Munch
Poster of Culloden
Poster of The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Filmography
Movie The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins Himself 2001-09-07
Movie The Freethinker Policeman 1994-09-03
Movie The Journey Narrator / Self 1987-02-24
Movie Edvard Munch Narrator (voice) 1974-11-12
Movie Punishment Park Documentarist (uncredited) 1971-10-01
Movie The War Game Documentist (uncredited) 1966-04-13
Movie Culloden Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited) 1964-12-15
Movie The Diary of an Unknown Soldier Narrator (voice) 1959-01-02