London Symphony

Organising his shots into thematic blocks - nostalgic byways, religion, bins - Barrett has the knack of drawing out visual details that cause nice eddies in the film's melancholy flow.

A beautiful yet not idealistic celebration of London, and an historical record for the future.

As a salute to London, Barrett's work is to be celebrated in itself.

The magic of the film is that it finds the drama of London in the places we seldom look - building sites, old brutalist apartment blocks, underground escalators and scaffolds.