‘The head: that represents the park in which this grotto is situated. Inside the head is the province that contains the park. Inside the province is the whole country. Then Europe, then the world. Inside the world, as you know perfectly well, is Europe. The country, the province. And that tiny dot in the middle, you can hardly make it out, that must be where we are.’
The map at the centre of the territory explored in Ruiz's film dissolves slowly into the territory itself:
The map at the centre of the territory explored in Ruiz's film dissolves slowly into the territory itself:
At the end of the film, the head as map motif finds its complement in the emergence of a skull among the stars:
'In the territory or country named "cinema", vicinity creates continuity.'
Raúl Ruiz, Poetics of Cinema 2 (Paris: Dis Voir, 2007), p.93.
For a discussion of Ruiz illustrated with several maps, see Jonathan Rosenbaum's 'Mapping the Territory of Raúl Ruiz' here.
For a precious assemblage of links in memory of Ruiz, see Film Studies For Free, 'Double Vision', here.
For the Polaroid camera and photographs in Ruiz's film, see here.
Raúl Ruiz, Poetics of Cinema 2 (Paris: Dis Voir, 2007), p.93.
For a discussion of Ruiz illustrated with several maps, see Jonathan Rosenbaum's 'Mapping the Territory of Raúl Ruiz' here.
For a precious assemblage of links in memory of Ruiz, see Film Studies For Free, 'Double Vision', here.
For the Polaroid camera and photographs in Ruiz's film, see here.