Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
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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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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After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide...
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A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
See moreMoving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash...
See moreThe Film That Buys the Cinema
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
See moreThe Falconer
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean...
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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...
See moreThe Cardinal and the Corpse
‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair. There’s a nod towards narrative here...
See moreFlight to Berlin
A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.
See moreUnrequited Love
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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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...
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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...
See moreMaggid Street
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...
See moreRadio On Remix
A re-edit of Petit’s Radio On (1980)
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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 unfolding of...
See moreNegative Space
A portrait of film critic Manny Farber, featuring interviews with Farber and art critic Dave Hickey, as well as inventively displayed clips of the...
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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...
See moreRudy Wurlitzer
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 mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.
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