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person_profile-Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins Age: 89

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Peter Watkins

Date of Birth:

Oct 29, 1935

Country of birth:

UK

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Peter Watkins

Found 13 Movies in total

The Trap

Writer

... 2012

... 2003

The Freethinker

Policeman ( Actor )

Script

... 1994

... 1991

The Journey

Narrator / Self ( Actor )

Editor

... 1987

... 1977

Edvard Munch

Narrator (voice) ( Actor )

Editor

... 1974

Punishment Park

Documentarist (uncredited) ( Actor )

Editor

... 1971

... 1969

... 1967

It Happened Here

Assistant Director

... 1966

The War Game

Documentist (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1966

Culloden

Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1964