Patrick Keiller's 'London'
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joanofarctan
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I like this film a lot. it reminds me of chris marker in theme and style. i never got round to seeing the 'sequel', Robinson in Space. i found both online from moviemail on one dvd. i think i might get that, come to think of it.
patrick keiller is teaching at the royal college of art these days. isn't that place full of super rich kids? everyone i know there is super rich.
keiller has been involved with the bartlett school of architecture before. when i used to live next door to it, all the architects thought 'london' was the best film ever. which is nice, i guess, but scary - that level of consensus. they were all super rich too, the architects, come to think of it.
patrick keiller is teaching at the royal college of art these days. isn't that place full of super rich kids? everyone i know there is super rich.
keiller has been involved with the bartlett school of architecture before. when i used to live next door to it, all the architects thought 'london' was the best film ever. which is nice, i guess, but scary - that level of consensus. they were all super rich too, the architects, come to think of it.
ta... is a bit of a mess mind you, that piece. was written also when i could still be bothered to listen to the pirates hehehluka said:
one of the things i like abt London and Robinson in Space (which is brilliant, possibly the better film) is the format of the film-essay, which there are nowhere near enough of....starts roughly with Vertov, then you have Marker, Orson Welles' fantastic and criminally underrated F For Fake. fast cutting contrasting with a tendency to drift rather than narrative...
well, cos as Borges said of Citizen Kane, London is a labyrinth without a centreluka said:
kennel_district
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love london, and robinson isn't half bad either. any recommendations of similar film-essay thingys?
nomos
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Do you know where I could learn more about these? Garage & Jungle (this a film about music?) via an unabashed Patrick Keiller influence sounds just too good to miss.
this is me as well. i saw it last summer and my memory of the day has an odd shade but i need to see the film again. waiting for a rainy day in the spring to revisit. robinson picking up and buggering off from the bus stop sticks in my mind.jenks said:
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nomos
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oh nice. thanks a lot labrat. now it's a matter of finding them.
found these descriptions of house & garage, and jungle:
http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/relph-payne.html said:
The first one, Driftwood, is playing somewhere in the Tate Modern.
Thing is, if you really love London & Robinson in Space, you'd probably want to give these films a miss... They were made by people in their early 20's kind of 'playing' at being Keiller, with enthusiasm and naivete standing in for Keiller's originality, knowledge, wit, etc etc
I only say this cos i made em...
Thing is, if you really love London & Robinson in Space, you'd probably want to give these films a miss... They were made by people in their early 20's kind of 'playing' at being Keiller, with enthusiasm and naivete standing in for Keiller's originality, knowledge, wit, etc etc
I only say this cos i made em...
nomos
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^^ That made me laugh Pleased to meet you, glenister. Well I do hope to see these sometime if I get the chance. Are they available to people who might like to screen them in North America?
Pleased to meet you, glenister. Well I do hope to see these sometime if I get the chance. Are they available to people who might like to screen them in North America?Was it playing in 2005 (possibly in a room just past the Russian modernist stuff)?
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The first one, Driftwood, is playing somewhere in the Tate Modern.
Thing is, if you really love London & Robinson in Space, you'd probably want to give these films a miss... They were made by people in their early 20's kind of 'playing' at being Keiller, with enthusiasm and naivete standing in for Keiller's originality, knowledge, wit, etc etc
I only say this cos i made em...
ha! hilarious!
London's coming in the mail (via zip.ca) any moment now...
sufi
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brilliant, just caught these 2 on unsolicited dvd posted by my long-lost cousin,
pleasantly herzogish far as i can see, & it goes without saying hauntological and k-punkesque...university of barking, very humerous harhar
especially nostalgic and timely snaps of pre-blair uk, sometimes feels to me like very recent history sometimes like a long-forgotten era, a little ballardish and you're not surprised when he gets to tilbury and raises conrad
like camp geography classes recounted by that anti-establishment teacher who used to let you smoke & did'nt come back after the summer holidays in 95
http://www.kamera.co.uk/article.php/490
pleasantly herzogish far as i can see, & it goes without saying hauntological and k-punkesque...university of barking, very humerous harhar
especially nostalgic and timely snaps of pre-blair uk, sometimes feels to me like very recent history sometimes like a long-forgotten era, a little ballardish and you're not surprised when he gets to tilbury and raises conrad
like camp geography classes recounted by that anti-establishment teacher who used to let you smoke & did'nt come back after the summer holidays in 95
http://www.kamera.co.uk/article.php/490
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