La Recta provincia est une sorte de secte conduite par des sorcières sur la plus grande le d'Amérique su Sud, berceau des mythes fondateurs de la culture chilienne.
Postproduction de la version cinématographique par la Cinémathèque franaise avec le soutien du Conseil national de la Culture et des Arts du Chili.
Raúl Ruiz未完成的作品,现已由其妻子Valeria Sarmiento代替完成,不同于1973年版本。
A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths. On the one hand that of the workers and the underdogs, headed by the figure of Lucho and, on the other, that of a group of in...
"With this film I returned to the world of Tres tristes tigres, to some people, in this case writers, who live in their own reality and believe that it is, in fact, Chile." - Raul Ruiz
A group of young writers sell their soul to the devil. It is a film about the meaning of isolation and a certain megalomania that developed in Chile during the government of Eduardo Frei. The ver...
Short feature about the planned community designed by the architect and sculptor Erwin Patkai at Marne-la-Vallée (where Euro-Disney would also get built). The program was produced for the Fr1 Arts magazine Expressions. - depositio (KG)
This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel's Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker's experiments with narrative strategies and w...
This mystical short film has a narrator telling us about a "strange philanthropical secret society" that has been in existence for seven years at a certain building. Its members, Philokinetes, devote their energy and money to studying and promoting a fragment of film they call 'The Film to Come'. The fragment runs for twenty-three seconds and is in a loop. Thus projected, it ca...