London

London was directed by Patrick Keiller and is considered a reflexive journey documentary. Along with a journey documentary, it is also a “mockumentary” because it mocks a travelogue and destroys the traditional idea of a documentary. A travelogue is made to encourage people to come visit the place being filmed, but in the case of London, it is showing all the horrible parts of London and displaying the city in a bad light. This documentary has no archival footage that I saw, but uses quite a bit of extra-didatic sounds. The film is narrator entirely by an unknown man who seems to know quite a bit about Robinson, who we also never see. Many times, the images shown do not match up with what the narrator is talking about. The film talks a lot about politics and also focuses on the bombings that were taking place in London at the time, due to the Irish Republican Army. The film also shows footage of men and women sleeping on the streets in London. This documentary seems to be criticizing London and depicted it as an ugly place to live.