TV Afterlife: With their latest work, Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair have taken television to the next level. Chris Darke checks into their 'Asylum.'
Film Comment Magazine, July Summer 2000, v. 36, no. 4, pp. 37 & 38
Darke’s article is a description and critique of the collaborative works by British filmmaker Chris Petit and novelist Iain Sinclair, with emphasis on their third film Asylum. Darke provides a synopsis of the film and describes aesthetics and themes such: as multilayered textures, technology and cultural memory,that connect Asylum to Petit and Sinclair's earlier work The Falconer and Negative Space.
ITEM 2000.131 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Asylum – Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair
The Falconer – Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair
Sans soleil – Chris Marker
Level 5 – Chris Marker
Negative Space – Chris Petit
The Cardinal and the Corpse – Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair
Immemory – Chris Marker
Historie(s) du cinema series – Godarad