Chris Petit: Reversing Into Tomorrow

Since his astounding road movie debut Radio On, Chris Petit has been one of the most consistently innovative and experimental voices in contemporary British cinema. Reversing Into Tomorrow aims to provide a fitting reminder of an unjustly neglected talent.

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Radio On

Chris Petit’s cult classic is one of the most striking feature debuts in British cinema – a haunting blend of edgy mystery story and existential…

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London Orbital

An extraordinary and visionary film by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair about the world's largest by-pass, the M25. London Orbital is a road movie, a…

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Flight to Berlin

Susannah Lawrence takes a flight from London to West Berlin, determined to break with the past. Then out of the blue, her sister Julie, who…

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Unrequited Love

Based on an English academic's memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a dazzling digital film essay on cinema and absence, on Hitchcock…

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Chinese Boxes

Langdon Marsh is trapped in a ghostly, neon-streaked Berlin after the sudden deaths of his heroin-smuggling associate and a teenage girl. A bar-owner friend and…

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Content

One of Petit’s later works, Content is about life in the rear view mirror, modern technology and the view of the world from the perspective…

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Double Bill: London Labyrinth + Negative Space

London Labyrinth is an impressionistic, personal view of London, presented through the use of archive film, while Negative Space is a portrait of film critic Manny…

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