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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
all 21
Movies 18
Director 15
TV Shows 3
Narrator 2
self 1
The Trap (2012)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
The Freethinker (1994)
The Media Project (1991)
The Journey (1987)
Evening Land (1977)
The Seventies People (1975)
Edvard Munch (1974)
Edvard Munch (1974)
Punishment Park (1971)
The Gladiators (1969)
Privilege (1967)
It Happened Here (1966)
The War Game (1966)
Culloden (1964)
The Forgotten Faces (1961)
The Web (1956)
Culloden
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1935-10-29 (89 years old)
Birth PlaceNorbiton, Surrey, England, UK
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known As彼得·沃特金
AwardsBerliner Kunstpreis, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
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