FILM

Inner Sage / Outer King gathers and assembles research material from the ongoing search for Ruiz’s unfinished film The Comedy of Shadows. Made for the Taiwan Biennale with collaborators in Paris and Taipei, the film features the painter Kar Siu Lee, poet Waldo Rojas, musician Jorge Arriagada and filmmaker Laha Mebow and is structured around readings of the original script and diary fragments by Ruiz together with photographs and video documentation of the original shoot in Taiwan in 1995.

“In one moment I fall into the expression in English inner sage / outer king. In this dichotomy the maximum aspiration would be contained, philosophy doesn’t search to know, it searches for happiness.” — Raúl Ruiz, Diary (Wednesday, March 8th, 1995)