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Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody
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Wikipedia article
'Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody' is an experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean digital video series written and directed by Ral Ruiz for the Chilean Ministry of Education. The first part won the Glauber Rocha Award for the Best Film from Latin America and a FIPRESCI Award at the Montreal World Film Festival in 2002 "for the director's personal exploration into his homeland, using DV in a rigorous yet playful manner".
Cast
* Bernard Pautrat as Bernard
* Ral Ruiz as narrator
* Malcolm Coad as English journalist
* Rainer Krause as German artist
* Ignacio Agero as Rafael
* Mario Montilles as old Rafael
* Marcial Edwards as a guide in the Museum of Nothing
* Javier Maldonado as a guide in the Museum of the Sandwich
* Francisco Reyes as patriotic priest
* Amparo Noguera as patriotic priest's realist sister
* Nstor Cantillana as country bumpkin
* Isabel Parra as Death
* ngel Parra as Our Lord Jesus Christ
* Miriam Heard as a consular officer
* Luis Villaman as Don Marat the schoolteacher
* Jos Luis Barba as Cuban schoolteacher
References
Further reading
* Depetris Chauvin, Irene (2015); "Texturas del pasado, performances del presente. Historia y giro afectivo en la rapsodia chilena de Ral Ruiz" in Cecilia Macn and Mariela Solana (eds.) 'Pretrito indefinido: Afectos y emociones en las aproximaciones al pasado', Ttulo, pp. 113135.
* Marinescu, Andreea (2017); "Ral Ruiz's Surrealist Documentary of Return: 'Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothques' (1983) and 'Colfralandes' (2002)" in Ignacio Lpez-Vicua and Andreea Marinescu (eds.) 'Ral Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry', Wayne State University Press, pp. 177196.
* Rodrguez-Remedi, Alejandra (2009); "'Cofralandes': A Formative Space for Chilean Identity" in Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page (eds.) 'Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America', Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87103.
* Thies, Sebastian (2011); "Nomadic Narration and Deterritorialized Nationscape in 'Cofralandes: Rapsodia chilena' (2004) by Ral Ruiz" in Josef Raab, Sebastian Thies and Daniela Noll-Opitz (eds.) 'Screening the Americas: Narration of Nation in Documentary', Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 273296.
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