Raúl Ruiz Movies

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...

Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music...

Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is...

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.