Chris Petit Movies

  • 2006
    Unrequited Love

    Unrequited Love

    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...

    Unrequited Love
  • 2001
    The Carfax Fragment

    The Carfax Fragment

    The Carfax Fragment

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    Chris Petit's experimental take on "Dracula".

    The Carfax Fragment
  • 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
  • 1998
    Dead TV

    Dead TV

    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...

    Dead TV
  • 1981
    The Telephone

    The Telephone

    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...

    The Telephone
  • 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
  • 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