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CANTO 14
by Raul Ruiz Ruiz’s treatment of Cantos 9-14 of the Inferno is typical of his work. His background setting is Santiago de Chile, and his characteristic juxtaposition of the quotidien reality of the city and its people with carefully-staged cinematic passages, sliced through with his grotesque and extreme images of surrealism, achieves a heightened reality in which the everday becomes as bizarre and disturbing as the wilder manifestations of his imagination. As a depiction of Hell, the films main strength lies in the dreamlike atmosphere of normality and the familiar transformed, like a thin skin which is stretched to tearing and through which intimations of the inexorable horrors of the Abyss are visible. Called by one critic “the best known unknown film-maker in the world”, and by another “the phantom of the cinema”, Chilean-born Raul Ruiz has created a body of work of quiet fame. Living in self-imposed exile, Ruiz works, of necessity, in foreign countries, the madcap metaphysical lands he cinematically imagines are essentially foreign – strange, eerie and uncanny; he is the supreme visual stylist. At the same time playful and rigorous, his films tend to confound expectations by combining genres and disparate influences, playing with fiction and non-fiction and ending as Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote, “somewhere left of the stratosphere, indulging in a kind of freefall of the imagination that puts his initial premises through kaleidoscopic transformations.” Raised in a family of sailors, Ruiz studied law and theology and became a noted avant-garde playwright in his twenties, before entering the film world as a scriptwriter and editor. He went on to produce, write and direct films throughout South America, rising to Head of Allende’s film office before his local career was cut short by Pinochet’s coup in 1973. His first feature film, Three Sad Tigers, won the Grand Prize at the Locarno Film festival in 1969. In 1974, Ruiz settled, more or less, in Paris and made over 40 features and shorts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. While Ruiz has participated in international filmmaking, it is in France where his films, like Colloque des Chiens (1978), which won the French Cesar Award for best short, Les Couronnes de Matelot (1982) and La Ville des Pirates (1983) have gained the most attention. It is also in France where his talents have found expression in theatre and television. Since the late 1970s, he has collaborated with the Institute Nationale de la Communication Audiovisuelle (INA) to produce a series of innovative television works, including his Petit Manuel d'Histoire de France (1979). In 1983 he was commissioned by the Avignon Festival to direct and film various theatre works, and in 1986, he was appointed director of La Maison de la Culture in Le Havre, where he has produced films himself and encouraged the work of other artists. In 1989/90 he was the Visiting Professor of Film at Harvard University, and whilst in the States, made his first American feature, The Golden Boat, in collaboration with writer Kathy Acker, Jim Jarmusch, Vito Acconci and musician John Zorn. Inspired by American police TV shows and soap operas, the film follows an aged street assassin and a young rock critic on their adventures through the surreal labyrinths of New York City's streets. CANTO XIV: They arrive at the beginning of the third compartment of the seventh circle. It is a plain of dry, hot sand, where three kinds of violence are punished; namely, against God, against Nature and against Art; and those that have thus sinned are tormented by flakes of fire, eternally showering down upon them. Among the violent against God is found Capaneus, whose blasphemies they hear. Next, turning to the left along the forest of self-slayers, and having journeyed a little onward, they meet with a streamlet of blood that issues from the forest and traverses the sandy plain. Here Virgil speaks to Dante of a huge ancient statue which stands within Mount Ida in Crete, from a fissure in which statue there is a dripping of tears, from which the streamlet, together with the other three rivers are formed. download information
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