Inspired by an unfinished film by Chilean director Raúl Ruiz, George Clark’s globetrotting short retraces Ruiz’s ill-fated production from the beaches of Via del Mar and the port of Valparaiso to the cemeteries of New Taipei City. Framed around a conversation with Ruiz’s widow, the filmmaker Valeria Sarmiento, Double Ghosts channels the spirit of this unrealized project into a...
On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes...
A poor kid runs through the city in search of flowers for his dead friend. A parable of the social inequalities.
Filmed in 35 mm with the same camera that Joris Ivens used in A Valparaiso, the first movie by Helvio Soto had the collaboration of Gustavo Becerra in music, Pedro Chaskel in the editing and the photograph of Hector Rios, all participants in the Cine Experimental gro...