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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
ENGAGE

How I Came to Write My 420,000 Word Novel

When the inner pressure to write overcomes the resistance to writing

8h ago

A close-up picture of a book.

8h ago

Published in
BABEL

Cinema: Montage or Long Take?

Which is the true language of film?

Nov 2

Cinema: Montage or Long Take?

Nov 2

Published in
ZENITE

My Mother’s and Roger Mayne’s Southam Street

Lives above… and below ground

Nov 1

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

Nov 1

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

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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