Premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival and the 54th BFI London Film Festival, and shown in cinemas in November, Robinson in Ruins, Patrick Keiller's third film-essay in his Robinson series, after London and Robinson in Space, is released by the BFI on DVD and Blu-ray on 20 June, in a Dual Format Edition.
A 2-DVD set containing London and Robinson in Space is also being re-issued on the same date.
One of Britain’s most intellectually stimulating filmmakers, Patrick Keiller is widely acclaimed for London (1994), his extraordinary portrait of the UK capital, and Robinson in Space (1997), his highly original meditation on ‘the problem of England’. In Robinson in Ruins, his eagerly awaited follow up to the earlier films, Keiller revisits the English landscape, this time applying his beguiling wit and acute powers of observation to our current environmental and economic predicament.
An intriguing blend of fiction and documentary, Robinson in Ruins presents the findings of the trilogy’s mysterious would-be scholar and original narrator, Robinson, who, after having been released from prison, has been haunting the Oxfordshire countryside with a ciné camera. When his film cans and notebook are discovered in a derelict caravan, the results of his search for the origins of capitalist catastrophe in the English landscape are assembled as a film that is narrated by their institution’s co-founder (voiced by Vanessa Redgrave). The trailer is at the link above.
