Born on this day – Peter Watkins:

Peter Watkins

Filmmaker

Documentarian

Writer

Film theorist

October 29, 1935 – October 31, 2025

Credits:

70'ernes folk (1975); A Discussion with Peter Watkins (1977); Aftenlandet (1977); Culloden (1964); Du côté de chez Fred (1988); Edvard Munch (1974); Ex-S (1996); Fällan (1975); Fritänkaren (1994); How the BBC Began (2022); It Happened Here (1964); La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2024); NET Playhouse (1967); Peter Watkins Reflects on 'The War Game' and the Media (1983); Privilege (1967); Punishment Park (1971); Reflets de Cannes (1967); Resan (1987); The Controllers (1963); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1959); The Field of Red (1958); The Forgotten Faces (1961); The Gladiators (1969); The Media Project (1991); The Movies (1967); The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001); The War Game (1966); The Web (1956); Tomorrow and the Day Before (2004); Ung bølge i England (1967).

Born on this day – Maya Deren:

Maya Deren

Director

Cinematographer

Choreographer

Dancer

Film theorist

Lecturer

Writer

Photographer

Music composer

April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961

Credits:

The American Film Institute (AFI) created the Maya Deren Award, in 1986, to recognize and honor the work of independent video and film makers.

Written work:

An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946); Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti (1953) / aka The Voodoo Gods by Paladin (1975 & 1998); Film in Medias Res (2005); Film Poetics (2005); Film Production (2005).

Music albums:

Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1980); Meringues and Folk Ballads of Haiti (1978); Voices of Haiti (1953).

Movies, video and television:

A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); At Land (1944); At Land / The Very Eye of Night (1955); Black Lake (2020); Cinema16: American Short Films (2006); Dissent (2011); Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993); Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951); Eschew (2017); History's Mysteries (1999); Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001); Invocation: Maya Deren (1987); Julie's Smile (2013); Maeva (1961); Marianne (2005); Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2007); Maya Deren, Take 0 (2012); Meditation on Violence (1949); Medusa (1949); Meshes of the Afternoon (1943); Mother (2019); Probe and Night Beat (1957); Reminiscences of Yearning (2011); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946); Roja Oscuridad (2018); Satan's Playground (2006); Season of Strangers (1959); The Private Life of a Cat (1946); The Very Eye of Night (1955); This Changes Everything (2018); Vever (2018); Vever (for Barbara) (2019); Witch's Cradle (1944).