Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins was born in 1935, moved from amateur film to British public television and made two films there in two years. The second, on a nuclear attack in Kent, was kept off the air for twenty years while winning the Oscar for documentary. After another failure, he left Britain in 1968 and from then on worked abroad, developing a constant critique of what he called the monoform of audiovisual language, to which he opposed films of several hours made with amateurs. He died in France in 2025.

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• CinemaCullodenPeter Watkins · 1964Cinema