Of Great Events and Ordinary People

In 1978 Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris eleventh arrondissement But contrary to the producers expectation the Left lost Ruiz seized on this anticlimax to make a documentary about nothing except itself a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and dispersal harking back to his Chilean experiments of the 60s Its political content is deliberately left negligible its hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election let alone why