Notes, recollections and sequences of things seen

Notes, recollections and sequences of things seen compiles the extracts of Ruiz' Diary written in Spanish - a nomadic mirror of the cineaste between 1993 and 2011 - which corresponds to a new stage in his life, when he was confronted with a major career change characterised mainly by more ambitious productions. With sadness he observed - in regard to the financing, gradually more difficult and chaotic, of his projects - the transformations in an audiovisual landscape moving further and forever from his dreams of a cinema which would be artisanal, non-industrial and of shamanic inspiration, on which he expounded in his Poetics of cinema.

This selection of extracts from his Diary, gathered here by Bruno Cuneo and Érik Bullot - both friends of Ruiz - gives priority to his thought process, in which he developed the practice of his Poetics by laying down new conceptions of time, memory and ways to make cinema. « I shall develop the ideas from Poetics of Cinema (...) I'm trying to explain - to explain to myself - the functioning of fictions in the film. In what way they are structured to ensure, multiply and intensify the circulation of real and mental images. (...) Gradually, painfully, a new method of filming, radically different from all those in circulatation, begins to take shape. »