Essays by the iconic British filmmaker on the relationship between film, cities and landscape.
Patrick Keiller's films include the celebrated London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000), and Robinson in Ruins (2010). He has devised large-scale installations including Londres, Bombay (Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, 2006) and The Robinson Institute (Tate Britain, London, 2012), the latter accompanied by a book The Possibility of Life's Survival on the Planet. He was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London (2002-11), and has taught in schools of art and architecture since 1974.
Patrick Keiller s films (including London and Robinson in Space)
are some of the most beautiful and evocative images of contemporary
urban environments we have; in this collection of lucid and
eloquent essays he shows us the theoretical rigour that lies behind
his practice. Essential reading for urbanists, cineastes,
psychogeographers and indeed anyone who either lives in cities, or
cares about them; so: everyone. Will Self Keiller is Britain s most
observant and provocative film-maker around the subject of cities
and the landscape. In these wonderful essays, he explores the
political and cultural forces behind how the UK looks. Edwin
Heathcote, "Financial Times" Books of the Year An enigmatic,
intermittently brilliant collection of essays about the built
landscape of Britain and how it has changed in the last thirty
years. Andy Beckett, "Guardian" Perceptive, educated, un-obvious
musings on place and inhabitation. Rowan Moore, "Observer" Books of
the Year Our most original geographical and political thinker. Owen
Hatherley, author of "A New Kind of Bleak""The View from the Train"
often delights with its sly, impish wit and observation. Ian
Thomson, "Independent" An essayist of stylish rigour. Brian Dillon,
author of "In the Dark Room""
"Patrick Keiller's films (including London and Robinson in Space)
are some of the most beautiful and evocative images of contemporary
urban environments we have; in this collection of lucid and
eloquent essays he shows us the theoretical rigour that lies behind
his practice. Essential reading for urbanists, cineastes,
psychogeographers - and indeed anyone who either lives in cities,
or cares about them; so: everyone." --Will Self"Keiller is
Britain's most observant and provocative film-maker around the
subject of cities and the landscape. In these wonderful essays, he
explores the political and cultural forces behind how the UK
looks." --Edwin Heathcote, "Financial Times" Books of the Year"An
enigmatic, intermittently brilliant collection of essays about the
built landscape of Britain and how it has changed in the last
thirty years." --Andy Beckett, "Guardian""Perceptive, educated,
un-obvious musings on place and inhabitation." --Rowan Moore,
"Observer" Books of the Year"Our most original geographical and
political thinker." --Owen Hatherley, author of "A New Kind of
Bleak""The View from the Train" often delights with its sly, impish
wit and observation." --Ian Thomson, "Independent""An essayist of
stylish rigour." --Brian Dillon, author of "In the Dark Room"
"His research into the structure of everyday life is parlayed into
devious fiction, and the drear actualities of city and country
yield surprisingly ravishing images."--Brian Dillon
"Our most original geographical and political thinker."--Owen
Hatherley, "Guardian"
"Patrick Keiller is Britain's foremost film essayist, part
historian, part poet, part landscape photographer."--Nina Power,
"Film Quarterly"
"Together [Keiller's Robinson films] represent, aesthetically and
politically, some of the most enlivening work produced in
contemporary British cinema," "Radical Philosophy"
"The hallmarks of Keiller's work: a politics that forsakes dogma
for an undeniable love of Britain's landscape and people. What more
can we say?" "Guardian"
"An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction,
trumping the polemical despair."--"New York Times"
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