Architect/filmmaker Keiller's first feature transforms the audience into flaneurs as it depicts five journeys through London in 1992. The unseen, unnamed narrator and his friend Robinson set out by foot and public transport to trace the origins of English Romanticism, showing historical sites in the hustle and bustle of modern everyday traffic. Inspired by such nineteenth-century denizens as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Monet, the invisible characters embark on fictional journeys recounting documented facts. Along their diarized routes they are detoured (with the help of the sacrosanct Number 15 bus) and make connections between history and the present declining state of British affairs-IRA bombings, the unanticipated re-election of the Tories, and the polluted Thames. London has become a city of privatized individuals in stark contrast with the coffeehouse culture of the Continent. This attempt to define the parameters of the "London Problem" is both dryly humorous and politically piercing in its analysis of what Keiller refers to as the "disappearance" of London, for him, the first metropolis.-Irene Nexica