Le Film à venir (1997)

The Film to Come

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

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Raúl Ruiz
Director

Jacques Bouquin
Director of Photography

Valeria Sarmiento
Editor

Raúl Ruiz
Writer

Jorge Arriagada
Music

Silvia Voser
Producer

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