Suburbs in the Sky
Smile, smile, smile – a witty and informal look at the life and times of the air hostess.
Feature-film maker Chris Petit , of Radio On fame, turns his eye to the world of flying,
“trolley-dollies”, duty-free lives, emergency, sex and shopping. Cabin doors to manual! Welcome aboard!

Editor Caroline Pick
A Koninck Projects production for BBCtv

Suburbs in the Sky - Christopher Petit - 1991 .mkv

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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.1982.576p.BluRay.x264.mkv

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Film Description
Visionary film about the M25. A road movie (literally) and a cinematic excursion into the difference between driving and walking, film and tape, time and memory, sound and image. Also a look at covert arms deals, Essex gangsters, drug dealing and Thatcher and Pinochet as vampire-lovers.

Iain Sinclair’s territory has long been the hidden geography and psycho-geography of Britain. He is adept at drawing out the character of place, and in 2001 he walked the perimeter of the M25 in an attempt to understand its true nature and influence. This resulted in his recently published book, London Orbital.

Here, he has assisted Chris Petit in producing a richly allusive film that stands as a parallel to his book. It is an anti-road movie, condemned to circling without destination, but above all it is a meditation. A meditation on the difference between walked and driven experience and on the nature of the recorded image in our surveillance obsessed society. It is also an extraordinary collection of digitised, manipulated images, some of rare beauty, and with a narrative and sound effects that complement these well.

Instead of the promise embodied in the American highway, the M25 is instead a ‘bureaucratic dream’. Petit drives endlessly round the motorway, sometimes accompanied, often with just the banalities and moaning of talk radio as his company, and driving becomes an experience that is without a past or future, locked into a purgatory of the eternal present. One of Petit’s concerns is how a film can be made about an experience that essentially defies editing. The repetition of the road allows no anecdote. Neither is there a psychological entrance to the M25 – even the spot of opening where Thatcher cut the ribbon remains unmarked. The road is ‘negative space’ and to enter it ‘is to enter dead time’.

Sinclair uses the writers associated with the area near the M25 – H.G. Wells, J.G. Ballard and Bram Stoker, to make sense of the road and its experience. With the site of Stoker’s Carfax Abbey nearby with its Dracula associations, he suggests that a blood metaphor is appropriate for an understanding of the road. It is clogged, ‘a failed bypass in any surgical sense’.

The film also points out all the forms of interference that exist around the road – electromagnetic interference from the countless pylons, visual interference from the vehicles, barriers and roadside banks and also the constant noise from traffic below and planes above. Attempts at narrative are constantly thwarted. This is not a world where productive thought is encouraged and where such a thing might be positively threatening. Thoughts instead are alternately scrambled or lulled to leave us malleable for the grasp of the leisure malls that grow near the road.

Hypnotic and stimulating, London Orbital deserves repeated viewings.

Graeme on 12th February 2002

London Orbital (Chris Petit 2002).mkv

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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 and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. It is a story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and of modern technologies which define the urban stalker as they do the new terrorist. Their methods duplicate: both are irrational and targeted.

Stalking operates in the borders between normal love and pathological fantasy, and wants nothing better than to move in and close the gap. Stalking is radical, stalking is anti-bourgeois, stalking is the black economy of the heart. Stalking is an externalised form of self-destruction, as fanciful as any Hollywood confection, without the possibility of a happy ending. Stalking is the erotic impulse pushed to the point of principle, narrowing the distance between love and death, leaving no room for manoeuvre. Stalkers are the fundamentalists of love.

Unrequited Love is a love story in long shot. A world lacking any reverse angle because its story is defined by absence. At its heart is the lurking assumption of false intimacy. A black valentine.

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Directed and filmed by Chris Petit, this film is based on English academic Gregory Dark’s memoir on stalking and being stalked. Stalking operates in the borders between normal love and pathological fantasy, and wants nothing better than to move in and close the gap. Stalking is radical, stalking is anti-bourgeois, stalking is the black economy of the heart. Stalking is an externalised form of self-destruction, as fanciful as any Hollywood confection, without the possibility of a happy ending. Stalking is the erotic impulse pushed to the point of principle, narrowing the distance between love and death, leaving no room for manoeuvre.

Petit’s unique, essayist film style is difficult to capture in a few words. He introduces discrepancies between image, music and sound, uses extreme wide-angle shots from impersonal security cameras and close-ups of action, makes post-modern use of other people’s texts , with which he evokes a mood of alienation, confusion and passion in a possibly inhuman world.

Chris Petit: ‘What a film is about and how I film it are the same:
subject dictates style.I like films that show a process; here, the emotional transfer between stalker and stalked.’

Unrequited Love is a dazzling film essay on cinema and absence,
on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. It is a story of waiting,
self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, and of modern technologies which
define the urban stalker as they do the new terrorist. Their methods duplicate: both are irrational and targeted.

“My favorite feature-length experimental video by Chris Petit..” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

“Unusual, challenging and thought-provoking; positive and encouraging qualities in these increasingly dumbed-down days.” Slarek, DVD Outsider

Extras are good half hour interviews with Petit and Gregory Dart

Unrequited Love (Chris Petit 2005).mkv

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Synopsis
A 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.

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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.
Ulf Kjell Gür

Asylum (Christopher Petit & Iain Sinclair, 2000).mkv

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Set in 1970’s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother’s death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.

3.20GB | 1h 44m | 1024×554 | mkv

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Synopsis
Negative Space, is an experiment that’s accessible to anyone who cares about movies, using split screen to question how we look at and remember films, and to look at how film changes with time.

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

439MB | 39m 22s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/110451C9CE30C4A/Negative_Space_-_Christopher_Petit_-_2000.mkv

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