Urbano / Peri
Una de las cintas perdidas de Raoúl Ruiz, concluida por la cineasta y viuda del realizador, Valeria Sarmiento. Realizado en seis días con actores de telenovelas, es un juego en cuanto a instalar la idea de que todo Chile era una "telenovela". La realidad es, literalmente, la idea de Baudrillard sobre el simulacro. Es una colección de sketches jugando con los acentos y patrones del lenguaje en Chile. Ruiz dice: "Los chilenos a veces se pueden hablar sin verbos ni los sujetos, de modo que no podemos saber lo que uno está hablando. "Mi actitud es la de un 'extranjero'. Intenté mostrar cómo Chile se ha convertido en extraño para mí".
The Stranger
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.
Virgil
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).
In the late 1980s, a politically neutral photographer in Pinochet's Chile is still struggling to come to terms with the "disappearance" of his activist brother in the Villa Grimaldi torture centre back in 1975.
Narciso
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.
