Peter watkins edvard munch biography

"I do not believe that the anti-globalisation protest will ever reach its true fruition if we leave the cinema and television and the radio in the present position we're in."

- Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins is something of an enigma in the history of moving image production.

Edvard Munch is a biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, written and directed by English filmmaker Peter Watkins.

Edvard Munch is a biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch, written and directed by English filmmaker Peter Watkins.

This biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman.

This intimate docudrama reveals the life of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (Geir Westby), the Expressionist best known for his iconic painting "The Scream." Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death:he suffers the loss of his sister and mother.

In the decade before making Edvard Munch, Watkins pioneered a form of docudrama or pseudo-documentary: a synthesis of current affairs reportage.

'Edvard Munch' is the most personal film I have ever made.

He is celebrated as an innovator of the docudrama form, yet the socio-political elements in his work go largely undiscussed. The films he made in the 1960s are rightly lionised in the UK but his later films have, historically, been almost entirely ignored.

The quote above has much to do with these omissions, even if indirectly.

Taken from a 30-minute monologue delivered direct to camera in 2001 in a communist theme park in Lithuania (his nation of residence at the time), Watkins' words reflect a media critique developed through the course of his entire filmography and more recently expressed in the lengthy and regularly updated media statement on his website.

Troubled by the passive, hierarchical, spect