Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.

A blind moviegoer tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village fifty years ago.

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.

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...

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

An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.

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

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...

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

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.

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