Patrick Keiller
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Patrick Keiller (born 1950) is a British film-maker, writer and lecturer.
[edit] Biography
Keiller was born in 1950, in Blackpool and studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. In 1979 he joined the Royal College of Art's Department of Environmental Media as a postgraduate student.
His first film was Stonebridge Park (1981) followed by Norwood (1983) and The Clouds (1989). These films are typified by their use of handheld camera and voice-over, a technique that was further refined in his longer films London (1992) and Robinson in Space (1997).
Both London and Robinson in Space are narrated by an unnamed character (voiced by Paul Scofield) who follows his friend, the unseen Robinson around London. Robinson is involved with research into the 'problem' of London and in the later film, England. The films are seen as a critique of the British economic landscape under the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
In 2000, Keiller directed The Dilapidated Dwelling. This film was made for television, but was never broadcast. It features the voice of Tilda Swinton, and its subject matter is the state of British housing.
