Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

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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Chinese Boxes

Chinese Boxes

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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An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

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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Radio On

Radio On

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

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Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard

Moving 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...

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The Film That Buys the Cinema

The 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.

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The Falconer

The Falconer

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

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Displacements

Displacements

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...

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The Cardinal and the Corpse

The 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...

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Flight to Berlin

Flight to Berlin

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

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Unrequited Love

Unrequited 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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London Orbital

London Orbital

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

Asylum

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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Maggid Street

Maggid 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...

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Radio On Remix

Radio On Remix

A re-edit of Petit’s Radio On (1980)

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Content

Content

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

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Negative Space

Negative 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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The Telephone

The Telephone

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...

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Rudy Wurlitzer

Rudy 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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Surveillance

Surveillance

A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.

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