“A Bridge Between Imagination and Reality Must Be Built”: Film and Spatial Critique in        the Work of Patrick Keiller

Kinik, Anthony

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“…'Cool Britannia' did not last very long, but Paul's character did very well out of it, becoming a government advisor. 13 He met Vanessa Redgrave's character, who was imagined initially in Blair-era terms as a philanthropic supermarket heiress. She isn't described as that in Robinson in Ruins -by then she's the co-founder of the 'team of researchers' who are supposed to have made the film -but that's where the character came from.…”

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Robinson in England: A Conversation with Patrick Keiller

Piskorz

2021

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Patrick Keiller, a British artist and filmmaker, made five short films and three film essays: London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997) and Robinson in Ruins (2010). The main characters of the latter works are Robinson and his nameless companion – the narrator. They set off on a series of journeys to places nearly completely devoid of human presence or activity, investigating their semantic and myth-making potential. Keiller’s film essays are multi-layered narratives exploring, among others, such issues as the production of space, the functioning of memory, and the feeling of nostalgia. “Drifting”, understood as a game of spatial and verbal associations, reveals Keiller’s fascination with architecture, which is filmed in an innovative way. The contribution is a record of two interviews with Patrick Keiller, made in Oxford in September 2018 and 2019.

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Robinson in England: A Conversation with Patrick Keiller

Piskorz

2021

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“…London 'reads' well in the sense that it might work as a self-standing literary piece creating a very strong sense of the city-as-palimpsest, a city that is both 'geological' and composed of many historical layers, as well as the textual city, a city composed of layers of text. 50 This, in turn, is reflected in the way Keiller assembles and structures the visual narration. The words of the narrator, by his constant referencing to particular places, addresses or individuals, produce a sense of credibility and thus familiarity which is brought into question by the images -seemingly functioning as direct illustrations of the narration.…”

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Patrick Keiller and „the problem of London”

Piskorz

2019

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British architect and filmmaker Patrick Keiller is the author of the crictially acclaimed Robinson Trilogy (London, Robinson in Space, Robinson in Ruins). Keiller’s unique style of filmmaking intentionally depicts places that are nearly or altogether devoid of human presence and activity. They are sites in which events might take place, and the events are seen rather as possible contemporary myths. Keiller’s film essays explore the notions of place, the production of space, the workings of memory and the feeling of nostalgia. His investigation into the idea of “drifting”, understood as free association in space, reveals Keiller’s fascination with the “built environment” presented in an innovate filmic way, combining imagery, sound and editing. The paper concentrates on the first part of his trilogy, where the author addresses the “problem of London”.

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“…Keiller’s work is especially significant for the way in which it traverses the boundaries between creative practice, particularly film, and the critical analysis more commonly associated with academic forms of inquiry, but also for the way in which it takes up the spatial and topographic as the means to explore a set of contemporary issues centring around capitalism and neo-liberalism, landscape and mobility, memory and loss. Keiller’s work has already drawn a considerable body of scholarly attention (see for example: Bowring, 2011; Catterall, 2012a, 2012b; Clarke, 2007; Clarke and Doel, 2007; Daniels, 1995; Dave, 2011; Grimble, 2005; Goldsmith, 2012, Hegglund, 2013; Kinik, 2009; Martin, 2014; Massey, 2013; Moore, 2005; Nigianni, 2015; Power, 2010; Stevens, 2010), and Keiller has himself commented on London , Robinson in Space and his collaboration with Doreen Massey and Patrick Wright in the making of Robinson in Ruins (see Keiller, 2010, 2012; Keiller and Wright, 2000).…”

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Place, space, and capital: The landscapes of Patrick Keiller

Malpas

Jacobs

2016

Environ Plan D

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Through his three films London, Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins, Patrick Keiller has sought, inter alia, to provide an incisive commentary on the neo-liberal social order and the way that the spaces we inhabit are experienced and represented. Keiller’s films draw from a variety of sources including: surrealism; political economy; cinematic theory; and architecture. Yet, although there is a considerable body of commentary on his work, there is less analysis that engages in a detailed way with the substance of the work itself – its images and techniques – or with the framework within which it operates. Our aims are twofold: first, to redress that omission here, and especially to attend to what appears to be the divergent character of the most recent film, Robinson in Ruins, when considered in relation to the framework established by the first two – a divergence that directly implicates Keiller’s thematisation of landscape; and, second, to reflect more broadly on the wider significance of Keiller’s films for geography and other critically inspired scholarship.

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“A Bridge Between Imagination and Reality Must Be Built”: Film and Spatial Critique in the Work of Patrick Keiller

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Robinson in England: A Conversation with Patrick Keiller

Robinson in England: A Conversation with Patrick Keiller

Patrick Keiller and „the problem of London”

Place, space, and capital: The landscapes of Patrick Keiller

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