A TV Dante (Cantos 9 to 14)

These six video segments (10 minutes each) were originally developed for broadcast on Channel 4 as the second installment in the larger, never completed, series comissioned for Peter Greenaway and Tom Philips' A TV Dante (1989). But it was never aired. Ruiz's treatment of the six Cantos can be taken together as a bridge between his previous visions of hell in Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a Dream (1986) and La Chouette aveugle (1987) and themore recent series of essay videos that he has made for Chilean television under the title Cofralandes (2002).

Production Companies

ArtifaxCAL Videographics Ltd.

Channel 4 TelevisionDante B.V.Elsevier-Vendex Film BeheerKGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele ProductionRM Associates

VPRO