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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
October 29, 1935Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
25Place of birth
Norbiton, Surrey, England, UKAlso known as
彼得·沃特金Cast credits
The War Game
Documentist (uncredited)The Freethinker
PolicemanThe Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Narrator (voice)Culloden
Field Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
HimselfThe Journey
Narrator / SelfEdvard Munch
Narrator (voice)Punishment Park
Documentarist (uncredited)Crew credits
The War Game
Director, Writer, ProducerPunishment Park
Director, Screenplay, EditorCulloden
Director, Writer, ProducerThe Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography, EditorLa Commune (Paris, 1871)
Director, Writer, EditorEdvard Munch
Director, Writer, EditorPrivilege
Director, WriterThe Gladiators
Director, WriterThe Forgotten Faces
Director, WriterEvening Land
Director, Idea, EditorThe Journey
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Sound EditorThe Trap
Director, WriterThe Freethinker
Script, Editor, Post Production Supervisor, Director, WriterThe Media Project
Director, WriterThe Web
DirectorIt Happened Here
Assistant Director