Like Patrick Keiller's 1997 cult film Robinson In Space, his lesser-known 1994 experiment London matches static travelogue photography with the detached narration of Paul Scofield, who describes how he and an old boyfriend named Robinson tour England, trying to make sense of its flaws. Neither Scofield nor any of the characters he describes—Robinson included—ever appear on camera, and though the pictures and narration sync up, the effect is more like home movies, or an illustrated book on tape. Keiller has Scofield speaking in a direct but literary style, like something out of a Sherlock Holmes story. As the narrator and Robinson debate the conflicted state of London, simultaneously hopelessly corporate and vibrantly multicultural, Scofield explains that they mean to "transform the world by looking at the landscape" and get down to "the molecular basis of historical events." So Scofield keeps talking, looking for the right combination of words to explain what he and Robinson see.