Chris Petit Movies

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Moore

Smile, smile, smile - a witty and informal look at the life and times of the air hostess. Feature-film maker Chris Petit , of Radio On fame, turns...

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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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Cast: Jeremiah Healy

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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Cast: Cathryn Harrison

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Will Patton

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Dart

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Will Patton

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

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tusse Silberg

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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Cast: Michael Moorcock

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Iain Sinclair

A re-edit of Petit’s Radio On (1980)

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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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Cast: Michael Moorcock

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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Cast: Michael Moorcock

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pippa Guard

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Cousins

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Beames

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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Cast: J.G. Ballard

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Acker

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Beames

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Manny Farber

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alan Moore

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Joan Hickson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pippa Guard

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Acker

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathy Acker

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tusse Silberg

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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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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A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.

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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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Dart

A heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful, account of the epilepsy of Louis Petit as documented by his parents, filmmakers Christopher Petit and Emma...

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A heartbreaking, but ultimately hopeful, account of the epilepsy of Louis Petit as documented by his parents, filmmakers Christopher Petit and Emma...

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