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DESCRIPTION:The Journey, Episodes 1–6 \nPeter Watkins (1984–87)\n(Resan). Tonight, 
 and continuing June 24 and 26, we reprise Peter Watkins’s timely The 
 Journey, on the occasion of its acquisition in the PFA Collection. Watkins 
 creates compassionate, uncompromising films that challenge notions of 
 history and media. His faux documentary The Commune (Paris, 1871) showed at 
 PFA in 2002. “The Journey [is] perhaps his greatest achievement. 
 Watkins’s intelligence, passion, and skill have been consistently masked 
 by controversy: he is the most neglected and perhaps the most significant 
 major British director of his generation” (Sean Cubit).\n“Years in the 
 making, this monumental film dedicated to peace was a pioneering  attempt 
 at a fully international cinema. Producer-director Watkins worked with 
 support groups in nations around the world, raising money and assembling 
 casts and crews. During 1984 and 1985 the film was shot in the United 
 States, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France, West Germany, Mozambique, Japan, 
 Australia, Tahiti, and Mexico. Watkins talks with families and citizen 
 groups in these nations about the network of social and political issues we 
 are all part of—especially about the world arms race and its relationship 
 to world hunger, gender politics, and the functioning of the mass media. 
 Survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Hamburg reminisce about their 
 experiences, and groups of people psychodramatize scenarios the threat of a 
 third world war might necessitate. Most important, however, as The Journey 
 develops, the people Watkins works with begin to explore possibilities for 
 moving through the barriers that separate peoples, toward a more peaceful, 
 synergistic world. The Journey  is a fourteen and a half hour film, divided 
 into nineteen sections. It can be [experienced] as a whole or in 
 sections.”—Scott MacDonald \n• (Episodes 1–6: 274 mins) (Total 
 series: 870 mins, Multilingual with English subtitles, Color, 16mm, PFA 
 Collection)\nTUESDAY JUNE 24\n6:00  The Journey, Episodes 7–13 \nFor 
 program notes, please see June 19.\n• (308 mins)\nTHURSDAY JUNE 26\n6:00  
 The Journey, Episodes 14–19 \nFor program notes, please see June 19. 
 \n• (288 mins)\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/20473.php
SUMMARY:The Journey, epic film by Peter Watkins
LOCATION:Pacific Film Archive Theater: 2575 Bancroft Way @ Bowditch (UC Berkeley 
 campus, just east of Telegraph)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/20473.php
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