Chris Petit Movies
- 1979
Radio On
Radio On5.81979HD
A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
- 1989
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery6.4811989HD
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major...
- 1982
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman5.71982HD
After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of...
- 2016
London Overground
London Overground02016HD
London Overground retraces legendary London writer Iain Sinclair’s journey with film-maker Andrew Kötting around the Overground railway on...
- 1984
Chinese Boxes
Chinese Boxes61984HD
An American in West Berlin finds himself caught up in murder and intrigue after his associate is killed and a diplomat's daughter is found dead in...
- 1986
Hooray For Holyrood
Hooray For Holyrood01986HD
Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and...
- 2006
Displacements
Displacements02006HD
An abstract film, collecting together the 6 rooms Dave McKean made for Chris Petit to reshoot, cut-up, and generally abuse, in pursuit of images for...
- 1998
The Falconer
The Falconer01998HD
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean...
- 2000
Asylum
Asylum02000HD
Asylum is a film very much derived from chaos, expressing implicitly the ideas conjured up by its title. A strange mix of both documentary and...
- 2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
The Film That Buys the Cinema02014HD
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
- 1992
The Cardinal and the Corpse
The Cardinal and the Corpse01992HD
‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair. There’s a nod towards...
- 1981
The Telephone
The Telephone01981HD
A young woman enacts an imaginative revenge on her boyfriend for playing away. Director Chris Petit made this three-minute short to test a new super...
- 2002
London Orbital
London Orbital62002HD
A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway...
- 1984
Flight to Berlin
Flight to Berlin01984HD
A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.
- 2006
Unrequited Love
Unrequited Love02006HD
Based on an English academic’s memoir on stalking and being stalked, a digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on...
- 1990
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard71990HD
A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash,...
- 2010
Content
Content52010HD
Content is an ambient 21st-century road movie, an associative film essay inspired by driving’s trancelike state rather than any linear...
- 1998
Maggid Street
Maggid Street01998HD
A vagrant is taken in by a south London surgeon, who subjects him to a series of violent procedures, in the hope of recovering the inner daimon, the...
- 1993
Surveillance
Surveillance01993HD
A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.
- 1999
Negative Space
Negative Space61999HD
A portrait of film critic Manny Farber, featuring interviews with Farber and art critic Dave Hickey, as well as inventively displayed clips of the...