Synopsis:
Once upon a time there was a man. He lived with his mother, and worked as the caretaker of a large country house in Chile. One day the man found a bone in the garden. The bone had holes in it – it was a flute. The man took the flute and began to play it. The music turned into a song, and the voice singing the song begged the man to look for the other bones of a body scattered here and there. So the man and his mother set off following every path – that of God and those of the devil -, looking for the bones so that they could put the skeleton of the Christian man back together again and give him a Christian burial. And they saw what they saw, and lived what they lived. Many a story. And although they never told their tale to anyone, others told it for them.

2.31GB | 2 h 33 min | 1016×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/EB2C85DAFF8027B/La_recta_provincia_(2007)_–_Raoul_Ruiz.mkv https://nitro.download/view/55F44947D5B38ED/La_recta_provincia_(2007)_–_Raoul_Ruiz_-eng.srt

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:French (muxed),English

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Untouched Director’s Cut

Chilean film maker Ignacio Agüero begins filming objects in his flat that are connected to the history of his family and his country. But the outside world keeps intruding on his private film setting: beggars wanting something to eat, friends, neighbours, delivery men or young graduates looking for a job. Soon, Agüero turns the tables on them and asks his guests whether he may be their guest and accompany them to their homes, setting out on excursions into dangerous parts of town and lives: corrugated iron shacks, drugs. shootings. A journey from the inner world of one’s thoughts into the outer world of the present.

623MB | 2h 28mn | 784×432 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/301DED918410092/El_otro_dia_(2013).mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English Hardcoded

The post Ignacio Agüero – El otro día (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

“Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema. Each Saturday, Alicia Vega transforms the chapel of Lo Hermida into a film screening room as she conducts a workshop for children under the auspices of the Catholic church. The hundred or so children involved had never seen a movie, and in the workshop they see and learn about the cinema: photograms and moving images, projection, camera angles and movement, film genres, and much more. And they watch movies: Chaplin, Disney, Lamorisse’s ‘The Red Balloon,’ the Lumieres’ ‘The Arrival of the Train to the Station.’ Finally, each child designs his own film with drawings. And then, for the first time in most of their lives, the children got to the movies in downtown Santiago.” [from the video container] – Written by Fiona Kelleghan

628MB | 56mn 32s | 480 x 360 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/B2B77C141C5D04E/Cien_Ninos_Esperando_un_Tren.avi

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:None

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Quote:
For more than twenty years the films of Ruiz have led us into the fields of uninhibited delirium, free associations, and intricate games of collage. Ruiz, paying no heed to conventions, leads his audience into a labyrinth without a map, without warning and without an Ariadne allowed to help them retrace their steps. “Regulars only” seems to be the imperative which thrusts us into his creative world. However, it is a playful attitude that he proposes. Labyrinth, yes, but devouring monster, no — except the one we assemble ourselves from the fragments of mirrors that Ruiz has left scattered on the road. These fragments, their selection and random order, is indeed the art of Ruiz.

Quote:
Cofralandes, part three: Museums and Clubs in the Antarctic is a title that indicates a sort of joke: in fact, everything in the piece seems to happen in Northern Chico and in La Serena and its surroundings, although there are also scenes in Santiago and some images are set in London. But that does not matter much, since the spectator has been placed in the classic predicament of seeking landmarks has abundant work to do just to grasp the sprawling images in order to give them a minimal sense that will allow at least the prospect of a laugh, though it will be difficult to go beyond a bemused smile. Chapter 3 of Cofralandes seems to hide more twists and turns that the previous chapters and not all of them lead nowhere. Rather it is an enjoyable maze with dead ends and unexplained inconsistencies, even more poetic [than previous chapters]. There are plenty of nods to Creole culture, a visit to the Sandwich Museum brings Javier Maldonado, a regular performer Ruiz, to preside over a choir with a penitential litany that seems written by Nicanor Parra. But the sequence of clues [linking these disparate sounds and visions] is too knotted, as if the key [to the labyrinth] were three decades out of date. The suggestive scenery, music, and brilliant photography rough out relations between inside and outside: the desert and bedsheets; storms and shadows; trains that are described as something else,; Violeta Parra singing “The Words Redoubled,” a succession of rhymes whose primary purpose is more verbal play than realistic significance. Just what the Cofralandes series aims for: a game for the fun of it.

861MB | 1:05:00 | 656×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/2639409FB9AEFB5/Cofralandes,_tercera_parte_Museos_y_clubes_en_la_region_antartica_yogyamada24fps.avi

Language:Spanish, French
Subtitles:Spanish hardcoded subtitles for some French

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