BFI Southbank – NFT1 – 17.20 – 20 November 2010 – film & panel discussion
Patrick Keiller‘s film Robinson in Ruins, released on 19 November, is one of several outcomes of a three-year, AHRC-funded research collaboration between Keiller, Doreen Massey, Patrick Wright and Matthew Flintham.
Following a screening of the film, the co-researchers will present their project as a political intervention. Through its study of a landscape, the project challenges commonly-held assumptions about the current economic and ecological crises: about market forces, commodification, and the terms of belonging in an age supposedly characterised by mobility and displacement.
In this month’s Sight & Sound, Mark Fisher considers the film and the new green sensibility in Keiller’s work.
