D is for Distance
Details
D is for Distance is a montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, creating an inquiry into the age of post-truth and how one young man's illness became representative of the woes of the world and how he triumphed against adversity to produce his vision through singular paintings that are a result of his countless 'trips' into the other world.
DIRECTORS: Chris Petit, Emma Matthews
SCRIPT: Chris Petit, Emma Matthews
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jussi Eerola
EDITOR: Emma Matthews
SOUND: Olli Huhtanen
PRODUCERS: Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Testifilmi
Directors
Chris Petit
Christopher Petit is a filmmaker whose work has received international retrospectives (Locarno, Sundance, Buenos Aires). His feature fiction films include Radio On and Chinese Boxes. Other feature-length works include The Falconer, Asylum, London Orbital, Unrequited Love and Content. He is the author of eleven novels, including Robinson and The Psalm Killer, reissued in 2016 as a Picador Modern Classic. He has been described by Le Monde as the Robespierre of English cinema.
Emma Matthews
Emma Matthews is co-director with Anthony Wall of Arena – Night and Day (BBC, 2016–20, fourteen 24-hour films, drawn from BBC Arena’s unique archive of over 600 films, from dawn to dawn, with each version seasonly adjusted according to location and time of year. Her editing work includes many prize-winning arts documentaries whose subjects include James Ellroy, Phil Spector, Bob Marley, Brian Eno, Guy Bourdin, The Sex Pistols, Loretta Lynn, Bob Dylan and Moby Dick. She has cut Chris Petit’s films since 1998, including his collaborations with Iain Sinclair — The Falconer (1998), Asylum (2000), London Labyrinth (2002) — as well as Unrequited Love (2006) and Content (2010). Her most recent collaboration with Petit and Sinclair was Pariah Genius (2024), based on Sinclair’s book on London photographer John Deakin.
Contact
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