Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino (25 July 1941 – 19 August 2011) was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Raúl Ruiz (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
Release Date1989-09-15
Charactersd Santone di Simone
Vote Count269
Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.
Release Date1991-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Small Role (uncredited)
Vote Count34
Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. “What now? Remind Me” is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on time and memory, on epidemics and globalization, on survival beyond all expectations, on dissent and absolute love. In a to-and-fro between present and past memories, the film is also a tribute to friends departed and those who remain.
Release Date2014-08-08
Charactersd (archive footage)
Vote Count9
An experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. The first part won a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".
Release Date2002-08-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Narrator
Vote Count3
In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism. Ruiz and friends further perfect the art of mystification. Why it is so difficult to count fish in an aquarium? Ruiz, his loyal actor Melvil Poupaud and his producer François Margolin come up with a wide range of hypotheses. With their bone-dry wit, they keep up the tradition of the French pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions. (IFFR)
Release Date2012-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count2
"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was made in Chile, using many poetic elements of the country. Chile is seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter—a painter who uses the traditional 18th-century concepts of Shih-Tao. Once again, I am doing something that, apparently, is not meant to go hand in hand. The landscape of my country, southern Chile, where I was born, initially provokes in me a feeling of fear. The landscape is madness. In these crazy landscapes, you can find very reasonable people, which makes the landscape seem even crazier."
Release Date1992-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Narrator
Vote Count1
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.
Release Date2012-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Don Fernando (voice)
A fire started by Harry Thompson destroys the Liguria, a legendary ship of the 19th century, and its treasure of gold and diamonds sinks in the sea. Thompson manages to escape unaware that Albizetti sleeps in the same lifeboat he uses. They manage to arrive at a deserted island, which has also been reached on the opposite shore– by the other survivors of the shipwreck: three children, a woman and three men.
Release Date1985-08-15
Charactersd Marinero
Vote Count2
Reel 23 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
Release Date1982-06-29
Charactersd N°228
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
Release Date1977-09-28
Charactersd Chilean refugee
Vote Count1
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
Release Date1979-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd
Vote Count27
Portrait of "cinéaste" Ruiz, seemingly at his typewriter, in Courant's ongoing "Cinématon" series.
Release Date1982-06-27
Charactersd Himself
Release Date2006-07-23
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Release Date2010-09-06
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
The house of the director has a door out to the sidewalk. This gate separates the inside from the outside. The interior contains the filmmaker's personal story and his world of objects, thoughts and imaginations. Outer space contains the city of Santiago de Chile. The stories of the world inside the house are interrupted when the doorbell rings unknown and thus come into the film.
Release Date2012-07-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
A series featuring six major artists and writers who live and work in exile.
Release Date1988-06-02
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
A documentary recorded during the filming of "The Wandering Soap Opera" by Raúl Ruiz. Made in 1990 and completed 27 years later, in 2017. The film brings closer the approach in Ruiz's directing style and his personal vision of Cinema.
Release Date2017-10-11
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
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 screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing merriment (entitled Beaubourg, la dernière Major !) audience members were invited to observe the daily making of this film, directed by Bozon and written by Axelle Ropert, about an inexperienced young journalist (Laure Marsac) sent to the Pompidou to interview a maverick artistic impresario (Thomas Chabrol). The result is an unexpected love story that is also a record of this landmark exhibition, featuring cameos by Raul Ruiz, Paul Vecchiali, Luc Moullet and more !
Release Date2010-11-14
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creating sublime visual effects of the sort seen in City of Pirates.
Release Date1984-12-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Series based on tales of sailors, fishermen and people from the coasts and islands of Chile. The episodes revolve around a ghost ship called "Lucerna", where the living are indistinguishable from the dead.
Release Date2008-09-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (A longer television version of the film of the same name, released in 2010.)
Release Date2011-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count11
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
Release Date2017-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count14
Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper is diverted away, strange things happen around the house and he becomes increasingly dependent on his new assistant.
Release Date2012-07-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count19
This three part French TV serial for children (alternate versions exist as a feature, Manoel’s Destinies, and a 4 part Portuguese TV serial, Adventure in Madeira) is the favourite of many devotees of Raúl Ruiz. This is because it ties the enchantment and mystery of Lewis Carroll, Carlo Collodi and the Brothers Grimm to the filmmaker’s experiments with narrative strategies and what he calls the pentaludic model of storytelling (where characters are thrown dice-like into combinations and situations governed by the play of Chance and Destiny).
Release Date1984-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count9
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 was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.
Release Date2007-08-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Release Date2006-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count70
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
Release Date2007-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count142
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Release Date1999-05-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count64
At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
Release Date2001-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
Release Date2012-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
Release Date2020-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.
Release Date1995-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new wife on a Jamaican honeymoon with her husband (William Baldwin), who is trying to help her recover. Which is real is the question as the story unfolds.
Release Date1998-12-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that day, Camille's mother, Ariane, meets up with her son in the park. The boy appears perturbed. He is leaning against a tree, eyes cast down. He says that now he wants to return to his "real home" and his "real mother."
Release Date2000-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
Release Date1996-05-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count41
Madeleine is with her lover, Jean-Paul, when her husband arrives home and catches the two together. Madeleine kills her husband and tells Jean-Paul to flee before the police arrive. After Jean-Paul drives away, he picks up a hitchhiker. When the car, stolen by the hitchhiker, explodes, police believe the dead hitchhiker is Jean-Paul. Madeleine takes up with Jean-Paul's brother, Bastien, while Jean-Paul, arriving in Strasbourg, is mistaken for the heir to a fortune. The detective on the case spends more time writing crime novels than investigating real-life crimes.
Release Date1998-08-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Release Date2000-11-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure.
Release Date2010-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
In Wind Water, Ruiz stages a three-way dialogue between three great cultures: the West, China and Arabia. He imagines what might occur if Shih-T’ao’s six poetic procedures for attaining the primal respiration or cosmic breath in painting were applied to one of the flagships of Western art, Velazquez’s Las Meninas. Ruiz wants the three cultures to interact and test each other like the paper, stone and scissors of the children’s game. The result is an insoluble dispute, a différend. No reconciliation or compromise is possible between these cultural outlooks.
Release Date1995-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Now Titus' father has died, the new emperor will be free to marry his beloved Bérénice. Also In love with Bérénice, Titus' friend Antiochus plans to flee Rome rather than face the marriage. However, public opinion about the pairing causes Titus to choose his duty to Rome over his love for Bérénice, and he sends his love rival to tell Bérénice the news...
Release Date1983-07-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Release Date1997-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
A blind moviegoer tells his niece about the time he screened Casablanca to a rural village fifty years ago.
Release Date2007-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Release Date2003-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Release Date1984-02-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count41
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 the Festival d'Avignon. This became a fiction about the theater because if I had filmed the actual performances at Avignon I would have had to respect their staging, I would not be able to change anything. As such, I wouldn't be doing anything more than a retransmission of Antenne 2 or FR3. And since a lot would have to be paid for rights to each play, it would end up costing as much as a fiction feature. So it is a story about the theater, a bit Rivette-ish. I shot all the exteriors in Avignon, the interiors in Paris a few days later and I finish the film next Tuesday."
Release Date1984-07-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate that investment. He gets some clues to the real situation in the town when the man driving his coach refuses to go any further and leaves him on a section of road which is practically paved with abandoned crutches. After a short trek, he meets up with the local dignitary who is to show him around, and he meets a priest and an artist. The priest gives a further clue to the events taking place in the village when he indicates that he's completely exasperated with the endless miracles that seem to be taking place. From that point onward, amazing coincidences, visions and miracles take place in great numbers.
Release Date1992-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
A glimpse at the few days and nights in the lives of a brother and sister, Amanda and Tito, in Santiago’s semi-criminal underworld. A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
Release Date1968-11-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Raoul Ruiz shot this film on March 28th, 1971, during the big peasant march in Temuco, Chile, when the bill that gave the full citizenship and civil rights to the Mapuche Indio people was approved. Raoul Ruiz listens to their painful stories.
Release Date1971-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
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 transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.
Release Date1970-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in love with her, but the vision last only a moment. Shortly afterwards, an elderly man storms into the projection booth and claims he is his uncle. H. wants to prepare a meal for him and reaches for the oil bottle: he sees the same dancer on the label…. H begins to find echoes of his own life in the images he projects. Everything changes when fiction and reality merge...
Release Date1987-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.
Release Date1980-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
When the child Manuel wanders into a garden that is off-limits to him, he meets an unidentified fisherman, and another boy -- the boy is actually himself several years down the road. Manuel experiences three different versions of his encounters in the garden, revealing that fate can have several twists and turns in one's life, depending on decisions that are made early on.
Release Date1984-08-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Release Date1987-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
Release Date1971-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
Release Date1985-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during World War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of aviation.
Release Date2005-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
Release Date1986-07-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
Release Date1975-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
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.
Release Date1973-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or doomed is often dependent on someone's soul that on whether theypray or suffer. The kindred spirit of San Gil ! the Holy Gil ! is CiccioBavaria who, unilke the former, continues to seek sin. For Bavaria sin isliberating and dynamic. The film tells the story of the journey made by thesetwo protagonists; a journey that leads to the demise of San Gil, while Bavariais reincarnated as Buddha. There is another traveller, a clandestinetraveller. Christ, always fleeing the angels. This Christ does not helphumanity with miracles, but by keeping himself alive as best he can givingweather forecasts.In this strange sainty story, Ruiz allowed himself ot be inspired byapocryphal books about saints of flesh and blood.
Release Date1994-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
Release Date2009-06-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
An island retreat. A man, his face bandaged, plays cards nonchalantly. His ex-wife arrives. Conversations happen.
Release Date1984-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
A documentary on the exiled Chilean painter Sotelo which focuses on the painter's voice rather than the paintings themselves.
Release Date1976-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Collaborative experimental project on which three director made different films about the Swedish icebreaker "Frej".
Release Date1990-09-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Eleven-year old Dora (Nathalie Manet) is forced to chase after clues concerning her inventor-father's death while being chased by thugs working for big industry. Not only is she seeking to understand her father's mysterious death, but some of the clues he gave her indicate that he invented something unusual which the big companies want. She barely escapes being kidnapped and is helped in her search by a magical fairy and an aspiring actress.
Release Date1978-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScenario Writer
Vote Count4
Two salesmen in Honduras are looking everywhere for their lost pal.
Release Date1976-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Absurdist short about a man with a suitcase and a man inside that suitcase.
Release Date1963-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
Release Date1991-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
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 old Cinema di Cascine di Buti). The Fondazione Pontedera Teatro was able to complete production of the film in 2004.
Release Date2004-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
Release Date1980-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
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 video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several music videos rather than one; once this deal was made, he shot enough material to interconnect the various videos until he arrived at a feature.
Release Date1985-06-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.
Release Date1986-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A sickly young girl is given away by her father to a childless couple. Twenty years later, she marries her adopted father.
Release Date1985-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
Release Date1978-04-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count45
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.
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The film centers on a Dominican monk named Jérôme (played by one actor in colour and another actor in black-and-white) and his interactions with various higher-ups within the French Catholic Church. Ruiz's intention was to reflect the ideological arguments that plagued Latin American left-wing political parties.
Release Date1978-07-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Professor Taranne, a conceited university Professor, is subject to several absurd and disquieting incidents from the world surrounding him. He is being accused of things he couldn't have been doing. He starts doubting himself - a self that might be fragmented or multiple.
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless joke empty of sense or direction. In any case, it will be difficult to deny the acid sense of humor that animates the film.
Release Date1984-07-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a 'realist', although the film is more 'nominalist' in characterization of the castle which presents itself as a representation). I say that it is a representation, since it is neither practical for military purposes (too many doors), nor to live in (too many draughts), but only as pure representation. So for the commentary, I tried to imagine how a Renaissance philosopher would view it in a pastiche of a scholastic or gothic text, then a pastiche of Fichte's Vocation of Man and finally a pastiche of Baudrillard."
Release Date1978-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Release Date2003-08-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia
Release Date1989-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
Release Date1995-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
All the characters are in hell, but they act as though the are in a sitcom, with canned laughter. It's based on Arcana Celestia by Swedenborg, a Swedish esoteric theologian from the 18th Century who started seeing ghosts, angels and demons around him. Instead of seeing a physician about it, he accepted the fact and began studying and interviewing his own hallucinations, like an anthropologist. He was convinced that people in hell are happy, because you find what you want there.
Release Date1992-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 of short stories, in which different worlds cross paths.
Release Date2023-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz, it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir (The Film to Come). The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes. They watch it on a loop, somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison. It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence “independent from humans. Cinema, they said, is the primeval soup of a new life form. There from were to emerge pure screening creatures. Which is to say, non-topical beings.” - n+1
Release Date1997-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
Release Date1996-06-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
Release Date2008-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Raul Ruiz filmed the gardens of the Château de Versailles. The first one, French, focuses on the King's Square (a space where everything is arranged in order to be seen). The other one, English, is the exact opposite, because from any point within it, one falls out of view. Within these two constructions, the labyrinth and the concentric circles, Ruiz conceives a 'photo-roman' plot: a husband and his mistress rendez-vous in the English garden (one understands why) and, through a series of accidents and afraid of being seen, he relocates to the other garden.
Release Date1982-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Mordant, self-aware, freighted with sensitivity toward Chile’s problem, wary of caricature, disposed toward consciousness of human fallibility, it is a deft blend of fiction and documentary set in the tumultuous days leading up to the election of Salvador Allende in 1970.
Release Date1972-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
Release Date2004-09-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
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.
Release Date1992-02-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
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 was bored. That was a bone flute. The man with the flute music play. And music song became. The voice of the song begging to seek the other bones of his scattered body. The man and his mother were in those ways of God and hell, looking for the bones that make up the skeleton of that Christian. And give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, they lived what they lived. Many stories lived. And although they did not tell anyone, others told them.
Release Date2007-08-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
A series of compounding dramatic situations, drawn from Georges Polti's '36 Dramatic Situations' and acted out in shadowplay and voiceover.
Release Date1982-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The life of a right-wing housewife in Chile during the prior days to Salvador Allende's military overthrow.
Release Date1975-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
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 grassroots group of the JAP (Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios) promoted by the government to alleviate this crisis.
Release Date1973-08-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).
Release Date1991-03-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The film captures the activities of the inhabitants in the countryside, in southern Chile, and the CORA (Corporation for Agrarian Reform). Although the action was filmed in four days and four nights in 1971, the movie was only finished in France in 1973, after the military coup.
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.
Release Date1981-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Short documentary film on the construction of the new town, Marne-la-Vallée.
Release Date1980-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Reflections on television debate and rhetoric through impromptu discussions.
Release Date1979-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A chronicle of Raúl Ruiz’s production of Michèle Reverdy’s opera “Médée”.
Release Date2003-03-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 relation of the city to the sea, the traces that bear witness to its foundation, the remains of Carthage, the symbolism of the recently discovered Medina coin … The splendours of the house interiors and courtyards are associated with a scene of origin, what psychoanalysis calls a primal scene. Entering these houses opens up a world peopled by women: the child’s ‘homecoming’ in the hands of women is staged as an abduction, playing doubly on fascination and terror. These places were mine, from my childhood, they can be found almost intact – it’s the return of the exile visiting the kingdom. I let Ruiz discover all this, and immediately that led him to echoes and resonances ranging from Spain to Chile.
Release Date1993-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 cinema, the mechanical gaze of a Super 8 camera. This eye sees very deeply, even beyond reality and brute memory.
Release Date1983-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman imagines a story that staged a sculptor (Paulus Brun) struggling with an impossible order. The man of land is "golemise", takes life in the countryside, and ends up dying on an opera stage.
Release Date1989-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A man loses his senses one by one. First he loses the instinct to own property, then his balance - so he can no longer walk - then his sight, then his touch... At the same time, he wants to go to China and become an "exote": a person who finds that the most exotic of countries is the one in which he was born. Based on Étienne Bonnot de Condillac's “Traité des sensations“ and Victor Segalen's “Essai sur l'exotisme“.
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
Release Date1982-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.
Release Date1987-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 him are put on trial.
Release Date2003-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In the early 2000s filmmaker Raul Ruiz followed painter Jean Miotte to different locations (New York, France, Germany).
Release Date2002-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A wild short made as part of a filmmaking workshop that Raúl Ruiz ran in Bogotá in October 1993.
Release Date1994-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A series of philosophical dialogues on friendship, architecture, electricity, cannibalism and human rights.
Release Date1989-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Filmed during the exhibition of the painter Dali at Beaubourg.
Release Date1980-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ruiz’s short about Pieter Wiersma, a Dutch sculptor who makes intricate sandcastles.
Release Date1981-06-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Ruiz, who brought to this commission some of the stylistic fabulism for which he was becoming known in avant-garde cinema.
Release Date1979-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The young Marcela leaves her small Chilean village and travels to Santiago in order to find work as a secretary.
Release Date1973-09-16
Racial, social and cultural aspects of La Paz (called Chuquiago by the Aymaras) seen through four stories.
Release Date1977-07-28
Vote Count17
On Raúl Ruiz's missing Taiwanese film "La comédie des ombres" and the projection of Clark's "Double Ghost" at the Chin Pao Shan cemetery on 19 august 2018 (anniversary of Ruiz's death and Clark's birthday).
Release Date2018-09-29
This eccentric short directed by Keith Griffiths, outlines Ruiz’s work, biography and preoccupations and includes a rare interview with the director.
Release Date1985-03-20
