Iain Sinclair Movies

  • 1996
    Terror and Magnificence

    Terror and Magnificence

    Terror and Magnificence

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    A short film made for BBC2, it features insight into the inspiration that Christ Church, Spitalfields gave the composer/performer, John Harle, in the...

    Terror and Magnificence
  • 2006
    Displacements

    Displacements

    Displacements

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    An abstract film, collecting together the 6 rooms Dave McKean made for Chris Petit to reshoot, cut-up, and generally abuse, in pursuit of images for...

    Displacements
  • 2017
    Unearthings – On and Off Watling Street

    Unearthings – On and Off Watling Street

    Unearthings – On and Off Watling Street

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    Iain Sinclair walks a section of Watling Street, the Roman road said to have much older origins, from Canterbury to London.

    Unearthings – On and Off Watling Street
  • 2000
    Asylum

    Asylum

    Asylum

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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...

    Asylum
  • 2016
    A Walk By Waiting

    A Walk By Waiting

    A Walk By Waiting

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    A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London.

    A Walk By Waiting
  • 1998
    The Falconer

    The Falconer

    The Falconer

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    Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean...

    The Falconer
  • 2019
    The Whalebone Box

    The Whalebone Box

    The Whalebone Box

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    From London to the far reaches of Scotland, the journey in the form of a quest for a whalebone box, related to its place of origin.

    The Whalebone Box
  • 2022
    The Gold Machine

    The Gold Machine

    The Gold Machine

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    Inspired by the writings of Iain Sinclair, a father and daughter trace the footsteps of their colonialist ancestor to the Peruvian jungle. Their...

    The Gold Machine
  • 2002
    London Orbital

    London Orbital

    London Orbital

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    A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway...

    London Orbital
  • 1998
    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

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    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...

    Maggid Street
  • 2016
    London Overground

    London Overground

    London Overground

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    London Overground retraces legendary London writer Iain Sinclair’s journey with film-maker Andrew Kötting around the Overground railway on...

    London Overground