The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001)
Geoff Bowie · 77 min
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins screens once in London: BFI Southbank, Tuesday 25 August at 18:30.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins
What it is
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 fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment. 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.