Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia...

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

It explores the problem of the shortage caused in Chile during the Unidad Popular. It shows the actions of a minister, a bourgeois housewife and a...

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.

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

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

A film festival jury, composed of film professionals, judges a film about a court in which three terrorists who allegedly kidnapped a judge to try...

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...

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. The bone...

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

In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of...

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

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