Raúl Ruiz Movies

Tunisia itself is the subject; we wanted to render the genius of the site. Tunisia is almost the central character of this little film: we see the...

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

Raul Ruiz filmed the gardens of the Château de Versailles. The first one, French, focuses on the King's Square (a space where everything is...

The most critically celebrated Rue essay of 1979 was the two-part Petit Manuel d'Histoire de France, directed by the exiled Chilean filmmaker Raul...

A blind moviegoer tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village fifty years ago.

It explores the problem of the shortage caused in Chile during the Unidad Popular. It shows the actions of a minister, a bourgeois housewife and a...

Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.

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

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...

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

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

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

On Raúl Ruiz's missing Taiwanese film "La comédie des ombres" and the projection of Clark's "Double Ghost" at the Chin Pao Shan...

A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.