Chris Petit
Authors · Directors · film critic
British writer
About Chris Petit
Chris Petit (born 17 June 1949) is an English novelist and filmmaker. During the 1970s he was Film Editor for Time Out and wrote in Melody Maker. His first film was the cult British road movie Radio On, while his 1982 film An Unsuitable Job for a Woman was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. His films often have a strong element of psychogeography, and he has worked frequently with the writer Iain Sinclair. He has also written a number of novels, including Robinson (1993).
Quick facts
- Known for
- Film '72, 40 Minutes, Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
- Born
- 1949-06-17
External & source links
Chris Petit gallery
Books & published works
Film '72

40 Minutes

Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

D Is for Distance

Displacements

Radio On

Chinese Boxes

The Film That Buys the Cinema

Moving Pictures: J.G. Ballard
Flight to Berlin

The Cardinal and the Corpse
Hooray For Holyrood
The Falconer

London Orbital

Asylum

Suburbs in the Sky

Radio On Remix

The Telephone

Surveillance

Unrequited Love
Maggid Street

London Overground

Content

Negative Space
Unnatural History
The Carfax Fragment
Dead TV
Rudy Wurlitzer
