1981-1990DocumentaryHiroshima at 75Peter WatkinsPoliticsSweden

Peter Watkins – Resan AKA The Journey (1987)

A global peace film produced in 1983-86 by the Swedish Peace & Arbitration Society and local support groups in Sweden, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, USSR, Mexico, Japan, Scotland, Polynesia, Mozambique, Denmark, France, Norway, West Germany, with post-production support from the National Film Board in Montreal, Canada.

• Released on film in 1987
• 14 hrs 30 mins

A global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people’s perception of it.

Sweden, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Soviet Union, Mexico, Japan, Scotland, Polynesia, Mozambique, Denmark, France, Norway, West Germany and USA
1987, 16 mm, 870 min

Following Tate Modern’s 2012 retrospective of Peter Watkins’s work, this special screening event offers the unique opportunity to see Watkin’s monumental film The Journey in its complete duration of 14 hours and 30 minutes.
The Journey traces the systemic impact of the global nuclear regime across 12 countries, building an intricate series of connections between the state of the arms trade, military expenditure, the environment and gender politics that are more relevant than ever.
Working collaboratively with activist groups from Sweden, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Soviet Union, Mexico, Japan, Scotland, Polynesia, Mozambique, Denmark, France, Norway, West Germany and USA, over three years, The Journey is an astonishing epic that succeeds in expanding documentary’s powers of polemic, reflexivity and inspiration.
Support groups debate the peace process, families discuss their fears of nuclear threat and the cost of world hunger, survivors recall the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while Watkins analyses the role played by mainstream media in normalising conflict. Peter Watkins’s vision of a political cinema that emerges from and documents the collaborative process which it analyses, reaches its most elaborated form in The Journey which is structured in 19 intricately edited chapters. The result is an unprecedented cinematic constellation whose inspiration and importance has only increased since its release in 1986.
Since the late 1950s, Peter Watkins’s films such as Culloden 1964, The War Game 1966, PunishmentPark 1970, Edvard Munch 1973 and La Commune 1999 have reinvented historical drama and future speculation into impassioned, insurgent political cinema. And yet The Journey 1987, Watkins’s most sustained experiment with documentary, has not been screened in London since its LUX screening in 2003. In the wake of the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on 11 March 2011, the critical relevance of The Journey can be neither doubted nor overlooked.

13.55GB | 14 hrs 30 mins | 640×480 | mkv

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Language(s):English (French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, German…)
Subtitles:French / English

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