The Line

I have chosen to use The Line project as part of the Negotiated Project to include moving image and develop this project further. I have needed to find work that suits my style and i have recently watched a documentry film by Patrick Keiller.

It is a narrative of him and a companion named Robinson who toure Great Britain comment on various places and things.

Clever and informative i discovered after watching the film that it follows in the foot steps of Daniel Defoe the famous 18th century literary writer of 'Robinson Crusoe'.

An idiosyncratic, eighty-two minute muse on England and the state that it's in, Robinson in Space proves to be witty, intelligent and thought-provoking. Set in 1995, an anonymous narrator (Paul Scofield) in on the verge of setting out from Paddington station to meet his friend Robinson. After a choppy time, Robinson has apparently settled in Reading, charmed by its literary and historical connections. However, Robinson has just been commissioned by an advertising agency to create a film probing the problems currently weighing down the country. Thus he's keen to have his old friend on board, a companion for seven meandering jaunts into the living hell of cities, the blandness of suburbia and the secrets of the countryside.