Double Ghosts

雙影

Double Ghosts takes as its starting point an unfinished film shot by Raúl Ruiz in Taiwan in 1995. The incompleteness of Ruiz’s film is the starting point for Double Ghosts, that considers the echoes of this unrealized project to explore cinematic and political phantoms.Drawing on research and collaborations with 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. Filmed on 35mm film in Chile and Taiwan, Double Ghosts follows traces across the Pacific from Ruiz’s birthplace in Puerto Montt to a mountain cemetery in Taiwan.