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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
Engage

My Oval Window in Manhattan

A window, a coincidence, a destiny

Dec 17, 2024

An aerial view of Manhatan on a sunny day.

Dec 17, 2024

Published in
Engage

My Mentor as Ghost—Ghost as My Mentor

When we recognize the lasting presence of the ones who matter

Dec 3, 2024

A man walking, seen from behind.

Dec 3, 2024

Published in
Engage

How I Came to Write My 420,000 Word Novel

When the inner pressure to write overcomes the resistance to writing

Nov 20, 2024

A close-up picture of a book.

Nov 20, 2024

Published in
Babel

Cinema: Montage or Long Take?

Which is the true language of film?

Nov 2, 2024

Cinema: Montage or Long Take?

Nov 2, 2024

Published in
Zenite

My Mother’s and Roger Mayne’s Southam Street

Lives above… and below ground

Nov 1, 2024

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

Nov 1, 2024

Published in
Zenite

My Self-Education in Cinema

Three movies day and night

Oct 16, 2024

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

Oct 16, 2024

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

Oct 9, 2024

Oct 9, 2024

Published in
Babel

Cinema: Subjective, Objective Points of View

A character rendered the conduit into story

Oct 1, 2024

The reflection of a person in a human iris.

Oct 1, 2024

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

Stepping outside the compound.

Sep 21, 2024

Chairs in lecture hall.

Sep 21, 2024

Published in
Zenite

Cinema: The Single Most Important, Truthful Statement on Directing

I just realized its significance…

Sep 3, 2024

Robert Bresson

Sep 3, 2024

Peter Markham

Peter Markham

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

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