Chris Petit Movies

A mini film-essay made up of CCTV footage.

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

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...

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

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...

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...