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HomeAfter starting out with high aspirations, chosen by Salvador Allende to head the state film office, Raul Ruiz was forced abroad to continue his experimentation in over sixty feature films, including The Territory, made for Roger Corman in 1982.
By his own admission, Ruiz wrote a hundred plays in six years, and that was just the "dry run" for his movie career! Even into the 90s, the still fairly young Chilean is known to pop off a feature-length script in two days and shoot it in a week.
In interviews, Ruiz has spoken of some formative experiences quite typical for a Latino youth of his day: Catholicism, Communism, a commitment to social reform and collaborations with likeminded idealists. However, the drier biographical details escape n otice.
His most recent film to make it onto video, The Golden Boat, was put together with the help of the executive producer of Todd Haynes' Poison and the producer of The Wedding Banquet, with the collaboration of The Kitchen in New York and Nomad Films of Luxembourg. The musical soundtrack was provided by John Zorn.
-- J. Kramer
