Film info: Robinson in Ruins

Film Information

Original Title	Robinson in Ruins
English Title	Robinson in Ruins
Director	Patrick Keiller
Country
Year	2010
Format	Digibeta
Colour	Color
Duration	101 min

Cast:

Vanessa Redgrave

Production:

Guión: Patrick Keiller
Fotografía: Patrick Keiller
Montaje: Patrick Keiller
Producción: Keith Griffiths

Synopsis

A female voice (Vanessa Redgrave) narrates the discovery of some film reels and notebooks in an abandoned caravan that belonged to someone named Robinson, a character Keiller had already introduced us to in two previous films, London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997), both narrated by Paul Scofield. Robinson’s images take us on a tour through Oxfordshire and Berkshire by the sound of news of a financial crisis that broke in 2008. The comments on current events refer to the first rural uprisings recorded in Oxfordshire in the 16th century, because Robinson in Ruins is a sort of Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind about the evolution of capitalism in the United Kingdom and the consolidation of liberal policies. A fervently landscape-driven film as that draws both on Constable and Turner and on environmental sustainability; and originated by an academic research about “the future of landscapes and the moving image”.