3 February
–
23 April 2006
Films:
Section 3: Gender, Race and SocietyWilliam Raban born 1948
Thames Film 1986
© William Raban / LUX
Thames Film 1986 traces a journey along the Thames from London Bridge to the open sea through a landscape of docks, wharves, and warehouses. The modern scene is interwoven with archive footage of the river, taken from a time when it was the artery to the British Empire. Travel writer Thomas Pennant had followed this same route in the eighteenth century. Shots of the river are juxtaposed with historical images of the same sites and accompanied by readings from Pennant's Journey from London to Dover 1789. The flow and flotsam of the Thames past and present thus becomes a meditation on the sites of modernity.