Double Ghosts takes as its starting point an unfinished film made by Raúl Ruiz in Taiwan in 1995. Based in Paris since the late 1970s, Ruiz came to Taiwan to film The Comedy of Shadows with a script inspired by the Taoist tales and parables of Chuang Tzu and Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author. The project was filmed at Chin Pao San cemetery with a Taiwanese cast and crew but never finished. Double Ghosts considers the echoes of this unrealized project to explore cinematic and political phantoms, following traces across the Pacific from Ruiz’s birthplace in Puerto Montt to the mountain cemetery in Taiwan. Drawing on contributions from filmmakers Valeria Sarmiento and Niles Atallah as well as Chilote fishermen, the film is staged as a series of actions seeking to reactivate this lost film.
