Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins

Over forty years, Peter Watkins (Norbiton, UK, 1935), one of the most important filmmakers of today, has managed to produce a unique body of work where the political world, combine art, history and Literature. Watkins has spent most of his career in self-imposed exile because of the ban on his film The War Game in 1966 by the BBC. His latest film, La Commune (Paris, 1871) 1999 represents, among other things, a rereading of the relationship between film and speeches in history by breaking the illusion through the ambiguity that exists on the limit that normally separates the actors from the characters they play. Since 1980, Watkins has been devoted to analyzing the effects of excessive centralization of the media.