Chris Petit Movies
- 2006

Unrequited Love
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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...
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- 1986

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...
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- 1989

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...
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- 1984

Flight to Berlin
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A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.
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- 2002

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...
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- 1981

The Telephone
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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...
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- 2016

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...
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- 2006

Displacements
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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...
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- 1982

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...
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- 2014

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.
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- 2026

D Is for Distance
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A film essay montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, about the age of post-truth and how one young man’s childhood...
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- 1998

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...
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- 1984

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...
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- 1998

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...
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- 1979

Radio On
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A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
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- 1993

Surveillance
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A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.
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- 1990

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,...
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- 1998

Dead TV
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A short film detailing the ways that TV has failed as a creative and expressive medium in the UK through various sped up and slowed down clips of...
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- 1994

Rudy Wurlitzer
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Some of Petit's works were made for television. In this session, the three films are about three major figures in the English universe: filmmaker...
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- 2000

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...
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