ROBINSON IN RUINS

A decade after his earlier trips around London and England, film cans and writings are discovered suggesting that Robinson – is that his real name? – resumed his investigations upon release from prison. Keen to cure the world of “a great malady” (symptoms include the banking crisis, global warming, war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the transfer of British land to obscure owners), Robinson sought – or so we’re told by an exlover (Vanessa Redgrave) of the now deceased narrator of the first two films – to communicate with “non-human intelligences” determined to preserve life on Earth. Keiller’s witty, revealing script weaves together philosophy, the arts, history, politics, economics, science, agriculture, architecture and much else, even as surreal, mysterious and beautiful images, imbued with a deep love of the natural world, remind us of what’s at risk. Timely indeed. (Geoff Andrew)