The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
This film looks at Peter Watkins and his uncompromising devotion to his ideals. This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar√ǬÆ-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 deca…
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
This film looks at Peter Watkins and his uncompromising devotion to his ideals. This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar®-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 decades, has proved that films can be made without compromise. With the proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fueled by audiences seeking an alternative to info-tainment. But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television. However, there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit. Pre-eminent among today's documentary filmmakers concerned about this mind-numbing standardization, Peter Watkins has never strayed from either his principles or the cause.
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
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This film looks at Peter Watkins and his uncompromising devotion to his ideals. This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins, an Oscar®-winning British filmmaker who, for the past 4 decades, has proved that films can be made without compromise. With the proliferation of TV channels, documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fueled by audiences seeking an alternative to info-tainment.
But now documentary filmmaking, too, finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television. However, there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit. Pre-eminent among today's documentary filmmakers concerned about this mind-numbing standardization, Peter Watkins has never strayed from either his principles or the cause..