Chris Petit Movies

  • 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
  • 1993
    Surveillance

    Surveillance

    Surveillance

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    A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.

    Surveillance
  • 1998
    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

    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...

    Maggid Street
  • 1994
    Rudy Wurlitzer

    Rudy Wurlitzer

    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...

    Rudy Wurlitzer
  • 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
  • 2014
    Unnatural History

    Unnatural History

    Unnatural History

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    Theo Valasquez's abandoned acoustic research in the Rangipo desert is narrated through fragments of an unfinished TV documentary. Meanwhile, the...

    Unnatural History
  • 2001
    The Carfax Fragment

    The Carfax Fragment

    The Carfax Fragment

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    Chris Petit's experimental take on "Dracula".

    The Carfax Fragment