Raúl Ruiz Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

Tunisia itself is the subject; we wanted to render the genius of the site. Tunisia is almost the central character of this little film: we see the...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Ruiz’s short about Pieter Wiersma, a Dutch sculptor who makes intricate sandcastles.

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

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...

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...