Raúl Ruiz Movies

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for...

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

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

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

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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...

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

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...