José Miguel Palacios

Raúl Ruiz (1941-2011) was a Chilean filmmaker who lived mostly in France after his exile following the 1973 military coup, and who made over one hundred films in Chile, France, Portugal, Germany, the United States, and Taiwan, among other places. Ruiz’s status as a key figure of world cinema has kept growing after his death, with rediscovered films, videos, installations, and writings that result from an archival constellation conditioned by exile. “The Cinema to Come” examines the nature of archival collections shaped by exile as well as the possibilities of a film history that foregrounds scatteredness as its fundamental precondition. Rather than an “auteur” study, this book project thinks with and through Ruiz a series of problems, such as historiography and the archive, materiality, exile and transnationalism, and radical politics and filmic experimentation.