Raúl Ruiz Movies

An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at...

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

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

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

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

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.

Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice,...

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

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: "I began La présence réelle (The Real Presence) first. I. N. A. had commissioned me to produce a personal vision of...

Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".

A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.

The film was made from the show Edipo Iperboreo (1989), directed by Ruiz. The shooting took place in Buti (Villa Medicea, Castello di Buti and the...

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

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

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

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

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

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