Peter Watkins - the Monoform

http://the-tarpeian-rock.blogspot.com/2009/05/monoform-introduction.html

"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

To read more, go here: http://www.mnsi.net/~pwatkins/part1_home.htm

This video is comprised of two excerpts from the documentary The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins.

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• monoform
• the Universal Clock

[seanjohnam]

Brilliant filmmaker

[flavs72]

Peter Watkins and Lindsay Anderson are people who constantly pushed boundries and in society and the media.Respect!

[DefenceSpeech]

I've been introduced to theories similar to this, but Peter Watkins has opened within me a whole new perspective upon the way the mass of audio/visual media is crafted.