"Rich and rare": stalking the M25 in "London Orbital"

• Autores: María Deseada López Fernández
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "London Orbital" (2002) is a documentary film about one of Europe's largest by-passes, the M25. Directed by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair, the film originated as a side project of a walk around the M25 (described in a book also titled London Orbital) intended to purge Sinclair's aversion to the construction of the Millennium Dome. The directors film the road as they drive it repeatedly, visually recreating madness and bringing up issues of memory, boredom, surveillance or the nature of the digital image. These and other topics are further developed when Sinclair and his collaborators investigate the liminal territories at the edge of London: deserted asylums, old churches, landfills, brown fields and literary landmarks that create an alternative mapping of the M25 drawing on futuristic literature of the past. Their intention is to disclose an occult heritage about to disappear to market forces and redevelopment which will eventually lead to the commodification of culture that the film firmly resists.