London (1994, Patrick Keiller)

Monday 24th of October, 6:15pm in the Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

“Dirty old Blighty, undereducated, economically backward, bizarre. A catalogue of modern miseries with its fake traditions, its Irish war, its militarism and secrecy, its silly old judges, its hatred of intellectuals, its ill health and bad food, its sexual repression, its hypocrisy and racism, and its indolence. It’s so exotic… so home-made.”

So begins Patrick Keiller’s poetic, aphoristic film-essay London, a journey through the city accompanied by discussions related to us by an anonymous narrator between him and his companion Robinson. Join us on Monday 24th of October at 6:15pm (doors open at 6pm) in the Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre. The film is 1 hour 40 minutes long so the screening should finish around 8pm.

For more about the film, see Douglas Murphy’s article “The First Metropolis to Disappear” in Tribune magazine and Dennis Lim’s essay in Artforum, “No Nook of English Ground Secure: The Films of Patrick Keiller”.