Chris Petit Movies

  • 1979
    Radio On

    Radio On

    Radio On

    5.81979HD

    A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.

    Radio On
  • 1989
    Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

    Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

    Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

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    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...

    Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
  • 1982
    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

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    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...

    An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
  • 2016
    London Overground

    London Overground

    London Overground

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    London Overground retraces legendary London writer Iain Sinclair’s journey with film-maker Andrew Kötting around the Overground railway on...

    London Overground
  • 1984
    Chinese Boxes

    Chinese Boxes

    Chinese Boxes

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    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...

    Chinese Boxes
  • 1986
    Hooray For Holyrood

    Hooray For Holyrood

    Hooray For Holyrood

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    Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and...

    Hooray For Holyrood
  • 2006
    Displacements

    Displacements

    Displacements

    02006HD

    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...

    Displacements
  • 1998
    The Falconer

    The Falconer

    The Falconer

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    Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean...

    The Falconer
  • 2000
    Asylum

    Asylum

    Asylum

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    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...

    Asylum
  • 2014
    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    The Film That Buys the Cinema

    The Film That Buys the Cinema

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    A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.

    The Film That Buys the Cinema
  • 1992
    The Cardinal and the Corpse

    The Cardinal and the Corpse

    The Cardinal and the Corpse

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    ‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair. There’s a nod towards...

    The Cardinal and the Corpse
  • 1981
    The Telephone

    The Telephone

    The Telephone

    01981HD

    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...

    The Telephone
  • 2002
    London Orbital

    London Orbital

    London Orbital

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    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...

    London Orbital
  • 1984
    Flight to Berlin

    Flight to Berlin

    Flight to Berlin

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    A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.

    Flight to Berlin
  • 2006
    Unrequited Love

    Unrequited Love

    Unrequited Love

    02006HD

    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...

    Unrequited Love
  • 1990
    Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

    Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

    Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

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    A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash,...

    Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
  • 2010
    Content

    Content

    Content

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    Content is an ambient 21st-century road movie, an associative film essay inspired by driving’s trancelike state rather than any linear...

    Content
  • 1998
    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

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    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...

    Maggid Street
  • 1993
    Surveillance

    Surveillance

    Surveillance

    01993HD

    A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.

    Surveillance
  • 1999
    Negative Space

    Negative Space

    Negative Space

    61999HD

    A portrait of film critic Manny Farber, featuring interviews with Farber and art critic Dave Hickey, as well as inventively displayed clips of the...

    Negative Space