Peter Snowdon
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Peter Snowdon (*1964) was born in Northumberland, England. He studied French and Philosophy at Oxford University, before moving to Paris where he worked in publishing and journalism, and as a consultant to UNESCO. He lived in Egypt from 1997 to 2000. On his return to Europe, he started making agit-prop documentary films in collaboration with activist groups and local communities. Over time, his work has evolved beyond the purely political to engage with the experimental and avant-garde traditions, and to address wider philosophical issues, while remaining firmly rooted in the documentary moment. His films have been shown at Documenta Madrid, Experiments in Cinema, Ecrans documentaires, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Cinema Vérité (Tehran), Entrevues (Belfort) and Abandon Normal Devices, as well as at the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. His work is distribued by the Collectif Jeune Cinéma (screenings) and Dérives magazine (DVD).
Peter holds a Master in Transmedia from Sint Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels (2010). He is currently an LSM research fellow at Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, where he is preparing a practice-based PhD on poetic documentary and collective memory.