‘Patrick Keiller’

In the presence of Patrick Keiller.

Patrick Keiller (1950) is a British film-maker, writer and lecturer. After studying, practising and teaching architecture from 1967 to 1979, Keiller has been making films since 1981. Most of his works are typified by their use of subjective camera and voice-over, a technique that was brought to its height in the highly-celebrated London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997) — two films that have been seen as a critique of the United Kingdom's economic landscape under the Conservative governments of 1979-97. Robinson in Space is narrated by an unnamed character (voiced by Paul Scofield) who accompanies his friend and onetime lover, the unseen Robinson, in a series of excursions around London. For his exhibition The Robinson Institute (Tate Britain, 2012), Patrick Keiller selected over 120 works — historic prints, paintings and drawings, extracts from film and literature — to create a narration of the English landscape and its political and economic history, illustrating the development of capitalism and the origins of the current economic crisis. Keiller has been seen as "the most original geographical and political thinker in Britain” (The Guardian).