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Peter Markham

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The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen

The Art of the Filmmaker: The Practical Aesthetics of the Screen

Explores the filmmaker's intention and method, their creation and capture of the fiction on the screen as a designed address to the audience.

2023

Stories

Published in
BABEL

Cinema: Montage or Long Take?

Which is the true language of film?

4d ago

Cinema: Montage or Long Take?

4d ago

Published in
ZENITE

My Mother’s and Roger Mayne’s Southam Street

Lives above… and below ground

5d ago

A group of adults with children in the street with a young girl standing the closest to the camera.

5d ago

Published in
ZENITE

My Self-Education in Cinema

Three movies day and night

Oct 16

The Electric Cinema building painted in blue on Notting Hill, 191 Portobello Road on a sunny day.

Oct 16

May I put in a mention of my alum Zal Batmanglij, director of THE SOUND OF MY VOICE and writing…

Oct 9

Oct 9

Published in
BABEL

Cinema: Subjective, Objective Points of View

A character rendered the conduit into story

Oct 1

The reflection of a person in a human iris.

Oct 1

51 Insights Film Schools Don’t Teach You (in the US)

Stepping outside the compound.

Sep 21

Chairs in lecture hall.

Sep 21

Published in
ZENITE

Cinema: The Single Most Important, Truthful Statement on Directing

I just realized its significance…

Sep 3

Robert Bresson

Sep 3

Published in
ZENITE

Cinema: The Approach of BluRay Commentaries

Disclaimer, I’ve done one.

Aug 11

Cinema: The Approach of BluRay Commentaries

Aug 11

50 Suggested Principles For the Filmmaker

In no particular order…

Aug 1

50 Suggested Principles For the Filmmaker

Aug 1

Published in
ZENITE

The Cinema of Vulnerability

A screen of power or a screen of the soul?

Jul 14

Teacher Carla Nowak looks at one of her students who is suspected of theft as he gazs away from the camera’s angle in the movie “The Teacher’s Lounge.”

Jul 14

Peter Markham

Peter Markham

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Author, consultant, former AFI Con Dir. Head. Sundance Collab Advisor-in-Residence. Book: THE ART OF THE FILMMAKER (OUP) https://linktr.ee/filmdirectingclass

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