Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose...

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.

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

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.

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...

This eccentric short directed by Keith Griffiths, outlines Ruiz’s work, biography and preoccupations and includes a rare interview with the...

A chronicle of Raúl Ruiz’s production of Michèle Reverdy’s opera “Médée”.

The film was made from the show Edipo Iperboreo (1989), directed by Ruiz. The shooting took place in Buti (Villa Medicea, Castello di Buti and the...

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

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

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

In the early 2000s filmmaker Raul Ruiz followed painter Jean Miotte to different locations (New York, France, Germany).

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

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

Ruiz’s short about Pieter Wiersma, a Dutch sculptor who makes intricate sandcastles.