Friday, 13 November 2015
Twitter Style Review of Patrick Keiller's London
London in Several Parts
London
in the rain #poetry
2015 viewing of London. Nostalgia #missthenineties
#missedthepoint
London
at the edges #poetry
The TV camera shot quality of
the film creates a warm sense of remembrance in itself #thamestelevision
London
#poetry
The narrator returns to London and spends time with his ex-lover Robinson. They explore London by foot #psychoeography #queerinterest.
The narrator returns to London and spends time with his ex-lover Robinson. They explore London by foot #psychoeography #queerinterest.
O,
London #poetry
Robinson, as central character,
is both entertaining and informative but his anger and confusion are central #alienation
Where
have you gone? #poetry
We learn a great deal about
London past and present through their wanderings #londonfringe
O,
London #poetry
There are touches of humour in
the use of the soundscape and visual. Gateposts, Peruvian buskers, spring time
and all that sort of thing.
O, O, O,
O #poetry
Londoners ignore the siege of
the city. We are left unsettled, feeling that time is never experienced in full
at the moment of happening.
You have
vanished #poetry
A deep-mapping effect of
writers, artists and philosophers who have lived in London #psychogeography
#filmreview #keiller #London
Dancing
with your confusion #poetry
Robinson’s character is
reminiscent of Guy Burgess #trilbywanderings #sovietapartment
Caught
looking back #poetry
The view from the hotel room/
Monet’s painting of the Thames/ dinner and something more with your alter-ego.
London
under siege # poetry
The history and the future of
London colliding to create the present #philosophyoftime #psychogeography
London in the rain #poetry.
London in the rain #poetry.
Sunday, 1 November 2015
The Flannelled Flâneur #1
My voyage began in the afternoon...
dressed for bed
a stroll to the desk
and back
to the desk
and back
and back
now to the window
litter the garden
leave the cat
curled hot
water bottle
and the clock
turned back
for day light
saving
follow
the wisp
into dusk
into dusk
along field
partition
down the valley
past the willows
ash and oak
first "shhh"
shhh comes before
the pheasant takes
off and flies
away
and over fence
the pheasant takes
off and flies
away
and over fence
and the breeze
of land agents
and haunted
houses above
the copse
of land agents
and haunted
houses above
the copse
the leaf face
jagged
jagged
and the whistle
of Tregeagle
emerging from
undergrowth
his tongue
in knots
of bindweed
his owner
calling him
in knots
of bindweed
his owner
calling him
through thicket
to where
the children
would swim
to where
the children
would swim
before
the world
the world
was changed
in a single
in a single
viewing
the
pool half-found
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