The Golden Boat

The Golden Boat

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...

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Three Crowns of the Sailor

Three Crowns of the Sailor

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...

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El arte de poner los cuernos

El arte de poner los cuernos

Dialogues of the Exiles

Dialogues of the Exiles

Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island

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...

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Night Across the Street

Night Across the Street

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

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Comedy of Innocence

Comedy of Innocence

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...

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Manoel’s Destinies

Manoel’s Destinies

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...

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La Recta Provincia

La Recta Provincia

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...

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Shattered Image

Shattered Image

Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman recovering from rape and an apparent attempted...

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A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

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

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Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

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Love Torn in Dreams

Love Torn in Dreams

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...

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The Territory

The Territory

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...

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On Top of the Whale

On Top of the Whale

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

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Socialist Realism

Socialist Realism

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...

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Concerning Nice

Concerning Nice

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.

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The Lost Domain

The Lost Domain

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...

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The Return of a Library Lover

The Return of a Library Lover

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...

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Of Great Events and Ordinary People

Of Great Events and Ordinary People

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh...

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