Of Great Events and Ordinary People
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1980-02-24
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Documentary
In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
Featured Crew
| Raúl Ruiz | Writer |
| François Ede | Writer |
| Raúl Ruiz | Director |
| Valeria Sarmiento | Editor |
| Jacques Bouquin | Director of Photography |
| Dominique Forgue | Director of Photography |
| Alain Salomon | Director of Photography |
