Raúl Ruiz

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Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.

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The Penal Colony Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.

The Territory Trailer (1981)

01 September 1981

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods just to find themselves mysteriously lost.

Elle Trailer (1996)

12 June 1996

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

Fado, Major and Minor Trailer (1995)

29 March 1995

Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer.

A Place Among the Living Trailer (2003)

28 August 2003

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

Three Sad Tigers Trailer (1968)

19 November 1968

A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld.

Notre mariage Trailer (1985)

01 April 1985

A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.

Dialogues of the Exiles Trailer (1975)

23 April 1975

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.

Secrets Trailer (2008)

09 October 2008

After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero .

La Victoria Trailer (1973)

16 September 1973

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

Amelia Lópes O'Neill Trailer (1992)

05 February 1992

A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.

Klimt Trailer (2006)

03 March 2006

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Three Lives and Only One Death Trailer (1996)

15 May 1996

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.

Time Regained Trailer (1999)

19 May 1999

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

La Recta Provincia Trailer (2007)

20 August 2007

This was a man. He lived with his mother. He cared a manor house in the countryside of Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden.

To Each His Own Cinema Trailer (2007)

31 October 2007

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

The Suspended Vocation Trailer (1978)

27 July 1978

The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church.

Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody Trailer (2002)

30 August 2002

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz.

Tous les nuages sont des horloges Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

The Lost Domain Trailer (2005)

01 June 2005

Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation.

The Golden Boat Trailer (1991)

22 June 1991

Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams.

What Is to Be Done? Trailer (1972)

09 May 1972

Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.

The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror Trailer (2020)

21 February 2020

A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.

La Femme au foyer Trailer (1975)

04 April 1975

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

Night Across the Street Trailer (2012)

11 July 2012

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

Wind Water Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia.

City of Pirates Trailer (1984)

22 February 1984

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14) Trailer (1991)

06 March 1991

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989).

The Return of a Library Lover Trailer (1983)

06 April 1983

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

The Film to Come Trailer (1997)

16 November 1997

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).

L'Inconnu de Strasbourg Trailer (1998)

19 August 1998

Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive.

Mammame Trailer (1986)

23 July 1986

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

Nucingen House Trailer (2009)

03 June 2009

Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.

The Expropriation Trailer (1974)

01 January 1974

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

El arte de poner los cuernos Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

Voyage of a Hand Trailer (1984)

18 July 1984

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion.

Ballet aquatique Trailer (2012)

01 February 2012

In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism.

Snakes and Ladders Trailer (1980)

17 September 1980

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

That Day Trailer (2003)

04 June 2003

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house.

The One-Eyed Man Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

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.

Visions and Marvels of the Christian Religion Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

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 Swedish esoteric theologian from the 18th Century who started seeing ghosts, angels and demons around him.

The Castaways of Liguria Trailer (1985)

15 August 1985

A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea.

Treasure Island Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.

Régime sans pain Trailer (1985)

25 June 1985

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 video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone).

The Real Presence Trailer (1984)

03 July 1984

Ruiz on the film: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of the Festival d'Avignon.

The Insomniac on the Bridge Trailer (1985)

02 October 1985

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur.

Mysteries of Lisbon Trailer (2010)

21 October 2010

The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.

Utopia: The Scattered Body and the World Upside Down Trailer (1976)

01 July 1976

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

Cinématon XXIII Trailer (1982)

29 June 1982

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

Chapter 66 Trailer (1994)

01 March 1994

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

The Divisions of Nature Trailer (1978)

01 January 1978

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a 'realist', although the film is more 'nominalist' in characterization of the castle which presents itself as a representation).

Nobody Said Anything Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

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

Now We're Going to Call You Brother Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved.

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting Trailer (1978)

04 April 1978

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.

Concerning Nice Trailer (1995)

13 September 1995

Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

Earthen Man Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

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

Palombella rossa Trailer (1989)

15 September 1989

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice.

Petit manuel d'histoire de France Trailer (1979)

21 September 1979

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 Ruiz, who brought to this commission some of the stylistic fabulism for which he was becoming known in avant-garde cinema.

Epistolar Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

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.

Days in the Country Trailer (2004)

05 September 2004

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.