Film Screening #48: Punishment Park(Peter Watkins,English,1971)

Panuval Book Store, Thiruvanmiyur.

Organised by Madras Film Screening Club, a film society based out of Chennai and who have been conducting film screenings for the last three years now.

Writer/director Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park is a ‘what if?’ scenario that takes the reality of a turbulent late sixties America and tweaks it ever so slightly. It imagines what right-wing terrors the future might hold

In 1970, with anger over the Vietnam War and injustices of race, gender, and class escalating, British filmmaker Peter Watkins made Punishment Park, a speculative pseudo-documentary which posited an alternate near-future in which Nixon had ordered to silence all dissent.

The film screening will be followed by a discussion on the film. 

Entry is free!

All are welcome!