LOOKING STRAIGHT INTO THE SUN

Looking straight into the sun is a Chilean experimental documentary film that portrays blindness as a director’s logbook in the span of 2019 to 2021, winter to winter. A first person story sketching a question far off visuality, created by sound, archives and fragments of the audiovisual. Blinks that verify the confusing present-day framework in Chile. A schoolyard, a blind woman in her apartment, police shootings, the ancient Greek myth in which eyes are pulled out and a sun eclipse are but a few scenes upon which is built an incomplete relation of a present that demands to be recorded.

Directora Josefa Ruiz
Director: Josefa Ruiz (Canadá, 1984)
Productora Alejandra Rosas
Producer: Alejandra Rosas (Chile, 1981)

Direction and filmography

Josefa Ruiz (Canadá, 1984)
2014 Tierra Amarilla
2015 El canal
2015 Y San Sebastián escogió a Yumbel
2016 Entre vientos y quebrada
2020 Apuntes de una ciudad ciega
2023 Mirar directo al sol

Production and filmography

Alejandra Rosas (Chile, 1981)
2003 Los tres cerditos
2015 Madre hay una sola
2016 El valor social
2020 Puerto escondido
2023 El Alma de la Rabeca
2023 Mirar directo al sol
2023 Trazos: Geografía del movimiento
2024 Siringa

Co-producing countries

Chile

Contact

jo.ruizcaballero@gmail.com alerosas@toninasur.com

Premiere

2023

Production house

Tonina Sur

Distribution

Status

60 min