The most recent of three films that claim to document the projects of a fictional, unseen character called Robinson, Robinson in Ruins was photographed during ten months of 2008, supposedly by Robinson himself, and completed two years later, supposedly by ‘researchers’ who had been given Robinson’s unedited footage and his notebook. The researchers are the Robinson Institute, a body conceived ten years earlier as a vehicle to continue Robinson’s work in his absence. An exhibition titled The Robinson Institute was displayed at Tate Britain, London, in 2012. The following paragraphs develop some further preoccupations.