London - The Modern Babylon

You’re left marvelling at London’s capacity for renewal and reinvention.

This is a portrait of cycles and change. But the mood of the film suggests that we should be impressed that this ever-growing, ever-changing city of ours is still chasing after new versions of the modern.

A dizzying collage of all the changes in London’s social and architectural fabric since light was first trained through celluloid.

Temple's film is refreshingly free of cliché. A very heady experience.

Temple and editor Caroline Richards demonstrate that the London mob (it can seem like there's been only one mob through the ages) time and again rescues the city from its complacency—and safeguards it from the suffocation of class-bound England.