Raúl Ruiz Movies

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if...

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

The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.

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...

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

A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

With his body now devoid of substance and able to fly, N. wanders looking for a way to return to life and reintegrate into the world.

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility,...

All the characters are in hell, but they act as though the are in a sitcom, with canned laughter. It's based on Arcana Celestia by Swedenborg, a...

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

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

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...

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

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea....

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment...

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