Raúl Ruiz

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Adaptation of a choreography by Joêlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia

A country house in the evening. A couple returns home to find a bailiff inside, busy taking inventory.

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 ...

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

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

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 ...

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.

A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England’s throne.

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 ...

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We ...

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 ...

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

A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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