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London 2010, from 1989
Will Wiles, editor of Icon Magazine, has a piece on his personal blog about a special issue of the Observer magazine from the New Year of 1989, speculating on what life would be like in 2010. Noting...
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A friend just pointed me to this: London / Driftwood + Patrick Keiller Q&A at The Architecture Foundation. Unfortunately, I missed it (and am setting up a Google Alert for Keiller now). However,...
View ArticleRepresentations of the City
This 3D model of London is apparently going to be released in Jan/Feb by Skape (via Digital Urban). Together with my explorations of London in Google Maps and Earth, and the notes in the last piece,...
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Chronology
As previously stated, the film unfolds quite deliberately over a set time, and there is no indication that Keiller did not shoot the film in order, on the dates specified in the script. Therefore,...
View ArticleCrowd-sourcing locations, and the best comment ever
Since announcing this project publicy for the first time on Monday, it’s had a great response – with one brilliantly notable exception, which we’ll come to in a minute. Thanks to everyone who’s...
View ArticleFrederick Wiseman’s ‘Public Housing’
Last week I went to a Barbican / Architecture on Film screening of Frederick Wiseman’s 1997 documentary Public Housing, which observes the final months of the Ida B. Wells development of South...
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Keiller Q&A: “That which is interesting about London is even less visible...
On Tuesday the Roxy Bar & Screen in Borough held a screening of London, together with a Q&A with Patrick Keiller. I attended. Before the film and Q&A I made some notes about the process...
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London on film on the Internet
One of the nice things about this project is people sending me bits of film and references. So I thought I’d compile a few of them that I an others have found lying around the internet – Londonish,...
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Then and Now
“New” phone boxes replaced with “old” phone box, only to be smashed by “new” demonstrations when I should have been out filming them to contrast with the “old” demonstrations.
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