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- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Peter Bromley is an independent documentary filmmaker who specialises in observational storytelling and radical filmmaking approaches, he’s known to have worked with 1968 Film Group, a filmmaking association based in London & Paris. Bromley's creative life began as a self-taught photographer, shooting fashion and portraiture. He originates from World's End, Chelsea, London.
Le Projet Familial (2020) "captures the Demailly's who have lived in the same area of Paris for over a century. Filmmaker Peter Bromley films the lives of this working class family at a time of political, social and cultural changes in French society. His film asks what does it mean to be French today? Bromley's beautiful observational film is a welcome change to most agenda heavy documentaries, it was awarded Best Feature Documentary at Tokyo International Film Festival. I can see why, it's a real treat to watch and so insightful to everyday French life" David Somerset, British Film Institute
"Peter Bromley's On the Somme (2012) is about memory, landscape and the sense of absence which dominates the localities which were touched by the Battle of the Somme. The Project attempts to record the journeys made by those who took part in the battle and the subsequent visits made by others since. Attempting to understand what was experienced by those locked in five months of intense fighting is difficult, if not impossible... The Project attempts to create a series of metaphors for these complex experiences through the contemporary use of photography, film and sound, alongside a walking of the 'Somme' as it exists in the present-day landscape" For me the fact that the 'Somme Project' exhibition at the LightBox Gallery ends in Liverool after it's journey holds even more meaning" Claude Moureau Bondy - Positif Paris
- IMDb mini biography by: 1968 Film Group
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Pronounshe/him
- Nationality / Religious or Ethnic identityBritish
- Making Films and Taking Photographs
- Worked as a photographer before making documentaries. Three books were published on his photographs: Bateau à Voiles (1989) The Passenger (1992) The Navigator (1996).
- Makes an appearance as 'Himself' in the short film The Apologist (2002) produced by 1968 Film Group.
- Born in Chelsea, London and grew up in the once working class area of World's End, which is situated within the borough of Chelsea on the River Thames.
- He spent 10 years (2006-2016) working on his photographic & film essay on WW1, the Somme Project. The result of which produced 100 large Black & White traditional darkroom prints on the Somme landscape and a documentary film called On the Somme (2012).
- A keen cyclist and fencer, made the short documentary The Fencers (2014) on his local fencing club.
- I make personal films for personal reasons...
- I find the act of looking through the viewfinder so magical, setting the frame within it, is pure poetry for me
- I'm a poet who uses a camera
- I love using a black fade with silent audio in between scenes... To me that's natural, moments and time move on
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