The Universal Clock The Resistance of Peter Watkins

This feature documentary is a portrait of Peter Watkins an Oscarwinning British filmmaker who for the past 4 decades has proved that films can be made without compromise With the proliferation of TV channels documentaries are enjoying an unprecedented boom fuelled by audiences seeking an alternative to infotainment But now documentary filmmaking too finds itself constrained by the imperatives of television However there is a rebel resisting this uniformity of the spirit Preeminent among todays documentary filmmakers concerned about this mindnumbing standardization Peter Watkins has never strayed from either his principles or the cause