Raúl Ruiz Movies

Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world. This other world is...

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

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

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus...

A coin and a cup of coffee on a table top. Raúl Ruiz gets the most from this minimal set-up, both visually and through the laconic soundtrack.

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

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

The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.

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

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

Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.

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

A man loses his senses one by one. First he loses the instinct to own property, then his balance - so he can no longer walk - then his sight, then...

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or...

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the...

The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although...

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...

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