The Return of a Library Lover

The Return of a Library Lover

16 mins | Documentary | April 6, 1983

Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world. This other world is cinema, the mechanical gaze of a Super 8 camera. This eye sees very deeply, even beyond reality and brute memory.

The Return of a Library Lover

16 mins | Documentary | April 6, 1983

The Return of a Library Lover
Ruiz, rediscovering the things of his past in Chile ten years after the Coup, regards them now with the eyes of another world. This other world is cinema, the mechanical gaze of a Super 8 camera. This eye sees very deeply, even beyond reality and brute memory.
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Original title Lettre d'un cinéaste ou le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèque
Directors Raúl Ruiz
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