The user of a city picks out certain fragments of a statement in order to actualize them in secret.
Roland Barthes
Routine gleaning
Harvey Keitel in "Smoke"
Mobile Gleaning
The mobile phone is today omnipresent – as notebook, still camera, audio recorder, photo album, music storage device, texting interface, blog updater, miniaturized laptop, video camera. An urban commuter, equipped with such a powerful device for a range of documentation, is ready to gather, accumulate and immediately forward snapshots of daily experience. Such ”mobile gleaning” thus recontextualises fragments of experience within surroundings that we daily decode. How might we use this portable multi-function device as we interpret and interact with cities and their stories?
Patrick Keiller's extraordinary portrait of London re-imagines the city through the explorations of an unseen 'researcher' Robinson and his similarly unseen companion, the film's narrator.
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