About
After a career in production with BBC TV Drama and Films, working with filmmakers such as Anthony Minghella and Martin Scorsese, and directing in Film and TV, Peter Markham was head of the MFA directing program at the AFI Conservatory, Los Angeles. He has taught in Beijing and Shanghai, been a lead instructor with Sundance Collab, and is an author, consultant and educator in creative filmmaking.
"Peter Markham is a passionate, rigorous, devoted, and (most importantly) mischievous teacher. I cherish my time as his student at AFI." Ari Aster, Writer-Director (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid).
Featured Work
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, and their formulation of the elements of the frame as a designed address to the audience. Positing 'practical aesthetics' as a resource of visual communication central to cinematic art, this book examines the concepts fundamental to the selective processes of the filmmaker and offers the reader highly informed textual analyses of specific films to explain the how and why of cinematic decision-making.
Other Works
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What's the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay
2020
