Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

A young working class girl falls in love with an upper class boy who is part of the plot to assassinate General Schneider, head of the Chilean Army.

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

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

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

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

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

Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus...

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...

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 documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince...

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...

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.

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

Short documentary film on the construction of the new town, Marne-la-Vallée.

Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.

Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.

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