Patrick Keiller

 

 

Patrick’s enchantment with the surrealist idea that you could change a city by the way the way you look at it (or her in a Godard perspective) is what mainly him toward the film essay as means of both criticising and projecting the Urban realities surrounding him - mainly those of England. An architecture graduate - for some time teacher as well - Keiller’s films are on a constant overlap between reality and subjectiveness, what is and what could have been the cities in which the attention of the movie focuses. Using still camera documentary scenes and voice over monologues which narrate the experience of personages - who never actually appear on scene - what becomes gripping in the films is the constant contrast of images and texts. His approach on the genre is crucial above all in the field of architecture, for which the essay could elaborate new means of analysis, project and feedback.