The Universal Clock - The Resistance of Peter Watkins by Geoff Bowie, National Film Board of Canada
Biographical Sites and Official Websites:
Wikipedia: Peter Watkins
Peter Watkins: Filmmaker/Media Critic (Official Site)
British Film Institute: Peter Watkins
Resources by and about Peter Watkins and his films:
Benton, Michael Dean. "Dialogic Cinephilia 5.0." Dialogic Cinephilia (March 6, 2014)
Carter, Matthew E., Brian Risselada, and Tom Sutpen. "Peter Watkins: An Intermission." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #17 (June 4, 2014)
Estrin, Marc. "Peter Watkins' La Commune." The Rag Blog (March 29, 2010)
Keser, Robert. "Edvard Munch." Senses of Cinema (February 7, 2006)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (France: Peter Watkins, 2000: available on Google video in multiple parts)
"Peter Watkins: La Commune." Chtodelat (October 31, 2008)
Peter Watkins: The Media Crisis Dialogic (October 3, 2007)
Rapfogel, Jared. "The Cinema of Peter Watkins." Cineaste 32.2 (Spring 2007)
Risselada, Brian, Max Slobodin and Tom Sutpen. "Peter Watkins: Act One (1964-1971)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #12 (May 2014)
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Revolution Has Been Televised [Peter Watkins’ LA COMMUNE]." Chicago Reader (May 17, 2002)
Sicinski, Michael. "Nuclear Nightmares, Mapped: Peter Watkins’ The Journey." Keyframe (October 25, 2014) ["Watkins’ 873-minute global documentary focuses on nuclear proliferation and unmasks why we can’t envision a better, safer world."
Watkins, Peter. "Notes on the Making of La Commune (Paris, 1871)." Peter Watkins: Filmmaker/Critic (2000)
---. "Notes on the Media Crisis." Barcelona, Spain: Quaderns portàtils, 2010.
"I think that the historical resistance by many activists to actually challenging the mass audiovisual media is a very serious problem. My personal belief is that until this subject is pulled up level with the other subjects being protested, I genuinely do not believe that the anti-globalization protest will ever reach its true fruition. If we leave the cinema and television and the radio in the present position they're in, we will never get there." -Peter Watkins
Thank you for this dossier! Do you by any chance have Watkins' full english text of "Media Crisis"? It used to be on his website, but it's not anymore. There's something called "Dark Side of the Moon", his latest statement and there's a short text called "Notes on the Media Crisis" which you can find online. But the whole book seems to be gone. It was published in France, but, of course, in French. I think it's a very important topic and I'd like to get hold of the text.
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