Image:Patrick Keiller
The Architecture Foundation continues its bi-monthly series of film screenings at the Barbican Centre, Architecture on Film, with another evening devoted to a lateral look at architecture and the city, as represented and discussed across documentary, video art and the movies. November’s instalment brings to the big screen two exceptional psycho-geographical wanderings through the changing face of London at the end of the 20th century.
Patrick Keiller, will be present for a Q+A following the screening.
Driftwood UK, 1999, Dir Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, 23 min
The capital and capitalism collide in celebrated artists Relph and Payne’s first film, Driftwood, an acerbic musing on “a city so assured of its brilliance that it constantly forgets to do anything noteworthy,” at the fin-de-siècle. Described by critic Jerry Saltz as “a love song to their native London… sung in the key of spleen,” this short film offers a generational response to Keiller’s London, in its charting of the city’s continuation of disorderly ‘pack-donkey’ urban chaos.
London + Q&A with Patrick Keiller. UK, 1994, Dir Patrick Keiller, 85 min
London is a unique film equal parts fiction and documentary. The feature captures the capital in a portrait of sly wit and surreal insight, at a moment of disenchantment before Cool Britannia and the Millennium Bridge. The film’s two wandering flâneurs see Rimbaud in Canary Wharf, and egalitarianism in the Routemaster bus, as they meander, on foot and in the imagination, through tableaux of a decaying city that never had the revolution it deserved. In this vital piece of cinema from ex-architect Keiller 18th century romanticism collides with contemporary urban alienation, in an experimental travelogue narrated by Paul Schofield.
More info:www.barbican.org
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment. We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential. Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.
The Architecture Foundation goes Inside London’s Metropolitan Mind
Tuesday 17 November 2009, 6.30pm
The Architecture Foundation continues its bi-monthly series of film screenings at the Barbican Centre, Architecture on Film, with another evening devoted to a lateral look at architecture and the city, as represented and discussed across documentary, video art and the movies. November’s instalment brings to the big screen two exceptional psycho-geographical wanderings through the changing face of London at the end of the 20th century.
We are delighted to announce that celebrated architect turned filmmaker and director of London, Patrick Keiller, will be present for a Q+A following the screening.
Driftwood
UK, 1999, Dir Oliver Payne and Nick Relph, 23 min
The capital and capitalism collide in celebrated artists Relph and Payne’s first film, Driftwood, an acerbic musing on “a city so assured of its brilliance that it constantly forgets to do anything noteworthy,” at the fin-de-siècle. Described by critic Jerry Saltz as “a love song to their native London… sung in the key of spleen,” this short film offers a generational response to Keiller’s London, in its charting of the city’s continuation of disorderly ‘pack-donkey’ urban chaos.
London + Q&A with Patrick Keiller.
UK, 1994, Dir Patrick Keiller, 85 min
London is a unique film equal parts fiction and documentary. The feature captures the capital in a portrait of sly wit and surreal insight, at a moment of disenchantment before Cool Britannia and the Millennium Bridge. The film’s two wandering flâneurs see Rimbaud in Canary Wharf, and egalitarianism in the Routemaster bus, as they meander, on foot and in the imagination, through tableaux of a decaying city that never had the revolution it deserved. In this vital piece of cinema from ex-architect Keiller 18th century romanticism collides with contemporary urban alienation, in an experimental travelogue narrated by Paul Schofield.
Notes to editors
Tickets: £7.50 online (£9.50 otherwise); AF Members £6.50 online (£7.50 otherwise); Concessions £7.50
www.barbican.org | 020 7638 8891
Venue: Screen 1, The Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS.
For more press information, interview requests or images please contact Oliver Basciano, The Architecture Foundation on 020 7084 6767
The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment. We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential. Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.
www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
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