Raúl Ruiz Movies

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at...

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

Short documentary film on the construction of the new town, Marne-la-Vallée.

Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil...

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince...

In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't...

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might...

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.

Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted...

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’...

A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.

From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun)...

A series of philosophical dialogues on friendship, architecture, electricity, cannibalism and human rights.

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and...

Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is...

A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.