Christopher Murray

Christopher Murray

Birth : , Santiago, Chile

History

Christopher Murray was born in 1985 in Santiago. Director of the feature film "Manuel de Ribera" released at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2010 and winner of the award for "Best National Film" at SANFIC 2010. He is co-founder of the documentary project "MAFI - Mapa Fílmico de un País" (www.mafi.tv), premiered internationally at IDFA 2012. General Director of the collective documentaries "Propaganda" (2014) and "God" (2019) both premiered and awarded at the Visions du Réel festival. He is the director and scriptwriter of the feature film "The Blind Christ" with which he competed for the Golden Lion in the Official Competition of the Venice Film Festival 2016 and winner of the International Critics' Award (FIPRESCI) at FICCI 2017. He is also the creator and head of the program of the new Diploma in Anthropology and Audiovisual Creation at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Profile

Christopher Murray
Christopher Murray

Movies

Sorcery
Screenplay
Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.
Sorcery
Director
Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.
The Sky Is Red
Editor
In 2010, 81 inmates died in a huge fire at San Miguel prison in Chile’s capital city Santiago. Inside, they were trapped behind bars like rats; outside, dozens of family members waiting for visiting hours to begin looked on helplessly as their loved ones shouted for help. The doors remained locked. This reconstruction sheds light on the utter failure of the prison’s administration, which was housing twice as many prisoners as permitted.
God
Director
In a country at the world's end, the highest authority of the Catholic Church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the most important religious crisis in its history.
Yours Truly
Director
Follows the trail of taxidermic pieces collected by The Manchester Museum during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Blind Christ
Screenplay
Michael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
The Blind Christ
Director
Michael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
Como me da la gana II
Self
Just like in 1985, today Ignacio Agüero is back interrupting filmmakers during shooting, but not to ask what he did thirty years ago, but to find out what is purely cinematographic in what they film. These conversations are related to images in the director's personal archive, as if what is truly cinematographic was found among bits that were never made for the screen.
Propaganda
Screenplay
PROPAGANDA is a follow up to the 2013 presidential campaign, in the midst of major social unrest in recent years. A single-car caravan crossing the desert, a protest flag covers the entire Alameda a candidate copuchea surveys on a dressing room. PROPAGANDA proposes a visual journey through the most extraordinary places of election, inviting reflection on the complex relationship between politicians and citizens, through the eyes of several filmmakers in the country.
Propaganda
Director
PROPAGANDA is a follow up to the 2013 presidential campaign, in the midst of major social unrest in recent years. A single-car caravan crossing the desert, a protest flag covers the entire Alameda a candidate copuchea surveys on a dressing room. PROPAGANDA proposes a visual journey through the most extraordinary places of election, inviting reflection on the complex relationship between politicians and citizens, through the eyes of several filmmakers in the country.
The Future
Thanks
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Las cosas como son
Thanks
Jerónimo is an antisocial local man who rents rooms in his home to expats so he can snoop around their belongings. One day Sanna arrives, a girl who will change Jerónimo’s life. They start getting closer until Jerónimo discovers that Sanna is hiding something in his house.
El monte de Gabriel
Editor
Gabriel climbs the mountain near his town every week in search of a divine manifestation.But this time, a young neighbor will interrupt her silence.
El monte de Gabriel
Screenplay
Gabriel climbs the mountain near his town every week in search of a divine manifestation.But this time, a young neighbor will interrupt her silence.
El monte de Gabriel
Director
Gabriel climbs the mountain near his town every week in search of a divine manifestation.But this time, a young neighbor will interrupt her silence.
Manuel de Ribera
Editor
In front of a lost fishing cove in the south of Chile, there is an uninhabited island. One afternoon, a precarious boat approaches its shores with a man: it is Manuel Ribera, who comes to occupy the land he has just inherited. With no job, no family and no money, he has come with the conviction that he will finally be able to build something for which he will finally feel like an owner.
Manuel de Ribera
Writer
In front of a lost fishing cove in the south of Chile, there is an uninhabited island. One afternoon, a precarious boat approaches its shores with a man: it is Manuel Ribera, who comes to occupy the land he has just inherited. With no job, no family and no money, he has come with the conviction that he will finally be able to build something for which he will finally feel like an owner.
Manuel de Ribera
Director
In front of a lost fishing cove in the south of Chile, there is an uninhabited island. One afternoon, a precarious boat approaches its shores with a man: it is Manuel Ribera, who comes to occupy the land he has just inherited. With no job, no family and no money, he has come with the conviction that he will finally be able to build something for which he will finally feel like an owner.
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Production Assistant
A young married couple going through crisis travel to Spain in search of new opportunities. Their lives are shaken with the unexpected visit of a disturbing girl.
Below
Assistant Director
Jaime, who’s been away from the city by his own free will, invites his family to watch an eclipse at his house on the mountains. The tensions in the group are apparent, but they slowly vanish, reaching the most transparent moment among the eclipse’s darkness.