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His research into the structure of everyday life is parlayed into devious fiction, and the drear actualities of city and country yield surprisingly ravishing images. --Brian Dillon Our most original geographical and political thinker. --Owen Hatherley, Guardian Patrick Keiller is Britain's foremost film essayist, part historian, part poet, part landscape photographer. --Nina Power, Film Quarterly Together [Keiller's Robinson films] represent, aesthetically and politically, some of the most enlivening work produced in contemporary British cinema, Radical Philosophy The hallmarks of Keiller's work: a politics that forsakes dogma for an undeniable love of Britain's landscape and people. What more can we say? Guardian An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction, trumping the polemical despair. -- New York Times

[An] enigmatic, intermittently brilliant collection of essays about the built landscape of Britain and how it has changed in the last 30 years. - Andy Beckett, Guardian Keiller is Britain's most observant and provocative film-maker around the subject of cities and the landscape. In these wonderful essays, he explores the political and cultural forces behind how the UK looks. - Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times Perceptive, educated, un-obvious musings on place and inhabitation - Rowan Moore, Observer An essayist of stylish rigour on urban planning, architectural decay and the vast culturally occluded material infrastructure that subtends daily life in Britain. - Brian Dillon, The Guardian [The View from the Train] often delights with its sly, impish wit and observation [...] By turns earnest and entertaining, opens a window onto Britain's uncharted, off-piste lands and their haunted past. - Ian Thomson, Independent Droll, analytical, and quietly furious. - Sukhdev Sandhu, Icon Our most original geographical and political thinker. - Owen Hatherley, The Guardian Patrick Keiller is Britain's foremost film essayist, part historian, part poet, part landscape photographer. - Nina Power An enlightening and stimulating companion to his films. Keiller is a masterful observer. [ - ] His learned account of the earliest film panoramas filmed from trains is that of a man in love with the history and technique of cinema. He looks at urban buildings with a coldly original vision. - Irish Times A provocative artist whose time may, finally, have come - Neil Young, Tribune

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Patrick Keiller's films include the celebrated London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997), The Dilapidated Dwelling (2000), and Robinson in Ruins (2010). He has devised large-scale installations including Londres, Bombay (Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, 2006) and The Robinson Institute (Tate Britain, London, 2012), the latter accompanied by a book The Possibility of Life's Survival on the Planet. He was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London (2002-11), and has taught in schools of art and architecture since 1974.

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