Patrick Keiller• Doreen Massey• Patrick Wright •Matthew Flintham

[screening]:          Robinson in Ruins

 

[conference]:    The Future of Landscape & the Moving Image

 

>18–19 May, 2011

 

> Patrick Keiller the critically acclaimed director of cult films London and Robinson in Space, will introduce a screening of his new film, Robinson in Ruins, at The Taliesin on 18^th May.

 

> On 19^th May, Swansea University will host a conference featuring Patrick Keiller, Doreen Massey, Matthew Flintham, and Patrick Wright exploring the theme of landscape and its relationship to economics, politics, aesthetics, memory and conflict.

 

> Tickets to the screening will be made available by Taliesin. Places at the conference will be limited – if you wish to attend, please register your interest NOW by emailing: [log in to unmask]

 

> Further details will be announced shortly…

 

                                                                                                                        This event is sponsored by:

Centre for Urban Theory /

Centre for the Study of Culture and Politics /

Romance Studies /

Taliesin Arts Centre /

 

Confirmed Speakers:

 

>Matthew Flintham is a researcher at the Royal College of Art where he is investigating militarised space in the United Kingdom, the shifting geographies of military land-use, and the changing roles of architecture and airspace design.

 

>Patrick Keiller, a fellow at the Royal College of Art, is the director of the films London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997) as well as Robinson in Ruins (2010). He is described by the BFI/Screenonline as ‘One of the most distinctive voices to emerge in British cinema since Peter Greenaway’. An interview with him, about his latest film, can be seen here:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/nov/24/patrick-keiller-robinson-in-ruins

 

>Doreen Massey FRSA, FBA, AcSS is a world-renowned Geographer and recipient of the Prix Vautrin Lud (orNobel de Géographie). Emeritus Professor at the Open Univerisity her most recent book is World City (Polity).

 

>Patrick Wright has been a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and BBC4 television. Currently a research professor at the Institute of Cultural Analysis, Nottingham Trent University, his many publications include On Living in an Old Country (a classic now reprinted by Oxford UP), The Village That Died for England, Tank: The Progress of a Monstrous War Machine (2000) and most recently Passport to Peking: a Very British Mission to Mao's China published by Penguin in 2010.