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The Zen of the Director: Mind and Process for the Filmmaker

The Zen of the Director: Mind and Process for the Filmmaker

The Zen of the Director explores the art of filmmaking as a journey of self-awareness, inviting directors to look inward as they engage outwardly.

2025

Stories

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Zenite

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Peter Markham

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Jun 8

Blue Remembered Film

A poem. A film. Many memories.

Blue Remembered Film

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Apr 30

Cinema: Can a Film Know Itself?

And can we see how that might be?

A woman peers at us through shadows.

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Mar 16

From Widescreen to Vert

What does this say about us and our world?

Napoleon, to the left, looks over an encampment of his troops

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Feb 16

Machine or Somebody There?

As author and educator, what do I offer?

Machine or Somebody There?

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Feb 2

Living With the Ghost of Mason but not Monroe

Or am I imagining it?

Actor James Mason in NORTH BY NORTHWEST

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Jan 9

Cinema: When Movies Don’t Move

The drama of stasis and “inserts”

A blue mug on a table

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Writelicious

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Peter Markham

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Nov 13, 2025

How I Came to Write My New Filmmaking Book

The prompts, the intention, the realization

Book title: The Zen of the Director

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Oct 4, 2025

Cinema: The “Journey of the Audience”

Academic exercise or invaluable filmmaking resource?

An audience watching a movie.

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Rock n’ Heavy

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Peter Markham

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Aug 20, 2025

One South to Another

My burger with Robert Johnson

Headstock of a Stella Guitar

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Babel

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Peter Markham

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Aug 12, 2025

Cinema: The Power of Inaction in a Movie

The “Duck Mantra” and how it plays out

A man and young woman look up to the sky.

Peter Markham

Peter Markham

Book Author

Author, consultant, was AFI Con Directing Head. Sundance Collab. UCLA Pro Dir. Program. Book: THE ZEN OF THE DIRECTOR (SPB) https://linktr.ee/filmdirectingclass

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