Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
8
Gender
Male
Birthday
October 29, 1935 ( 89 years old )
Place of Birth
Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
彼得·沃特金
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
Resan
1987-02-24Edvard Munch
1974-11-12Punishment Park
1971-10-01The War Game
1966-04-13Fritänkaren
1994-09-03The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
1959-01-02Culloden
1964-12-15