Iain Sinclair Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    Displacements

    Displacements

    Displacements

    02006HD

    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
  • 1964
    They

    They

    They

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    16mm footage of life in 1960s Dublin, with music and sound effects from Westerns on the soundtrack.

    They
  • 2007
    Offshore (Gallivant)

    Offshore (Gallivant)

    Offshore (Gallivant)

    02007HD

    Beginning in the pitch-black early hours of a September morning, the film follows a 14hr 17min cross-channel relay swim that I made along with my...

    Offshore (Gallivant)
  • 2014
    Abandoned Goods

    Abandoned Goods

    Abandoned Goods

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    Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain’s major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5,500 objects...

    Abandoned Goods
  • 2016
    A Walk By Waiting

    A Walk By Waiting

    A Walk By Waiting

    02016HD

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

    A Walk By Waiting
  • 2015
    Black Apples

    Black Apples

    Black Apples

    02015HD

    This work is inspired by the BLACK APPLES OF GOWER – a book by Iain Sinclair. The film investigates the ideas of travel, memory, history and...

    Black Apples
  • 1996
    Terror and Magnificence

    Terror and Magnificence

    Terror and Magnificence

    01996HD

    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
  • 2009
    Edgeland Mutter

    Edgeland Mutter

    Edgeland Mutter

    02009HD

    "The film attempts to invoke a sense of the past via the here-and-now. Drawing on my own extensive Super 8 archive and a growing body of Mini DV...

    Edgeland Mutter
  • 1998
    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street

    01998HD

    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