Chris Petit
1949 (75 лет)Rudy Wurlitzer
Chris Petit
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 Peter Whitehead, novelist and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer, and writer J. G. Ballard. In these cinematographic portraits, Petit explores the potentialities of the hybridization between fiction and documentary, building elaborate stories - supported in genres such as the police story - to better define the characters. In the biography of Ballard, we have a curious participation of David Cronenberg about to embark on the adaptation of Crash.
Rudy Wurlitzer
The Unmade Films of J.G. Ballard
Chris Petit
J.G. Ballard, David Cronenberg
A film essay on Ballard's fiction, and its unrealised cinematic potential, with particular reference to David Cronenberg's (yet to be filmed) Crash, featuring an interview with the director, prior to making of his film.
Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Chris Petit
Joan Hickson, Donald Pleasence
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 is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
The Falconer
Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair
Kathy Acker, Steven Dilworth
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters. A fitting epitaph for an English margin walker.
The Falconer
The Cardinal and the Corpse
Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair
Alan Moore, Alexander Baron
‘The Cardinal and the Corpse' marks the beginning of Petit’s loose partnership with writer Iain Sinclair. There’s a nod towards narrative here involving a book-search launched by graphic novelist Alan Moore and a dealer (the dapper but barking Driffield), but it’s little more than an excuse to showcase a number of authors and other miscreants.
The Cardinal and the Corpse
Asylum
Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair
Michael Moorcock, Ed Dorn
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 fiction, where in the future a group of people are looking back at the twentieth century. A virus has wiped out most of the culture of the twentieth century, leaving just fragments of a project called 'The Perimeter Fence' to be pieced together. These fragments make up a documentary about an exiled group of disparate yet similar minds.
Asylum
London Orbital
Chris Petit, Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair, J.G. Ballard
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 from several points, drive endlessly around it and dig up stories and potential beauty behind the motorway.
London Orbital
Hooray For Holyrood
Ross Wilson
Robbie Coltrane, Edgar Anstey
Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring interviews with Bill Forsyth, Samuel Fuller and Barry Norman, among many others.
Hooray For Holyrood
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Chris Petit
Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman
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 the man's son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man's memory and his increasingly suspicious death.
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
