José Luis Torres Leiva Movies

A prominent Chilean documentary director shares his family album with the film editor of his late works. A review of one hundred photographs and a...

More than sixty years after leaving high school, former classmates Alicia, Gema, Angelica, Ximena and Maria Teresa are still devoted to their regular...

Based on the book by author Marcelo Matthey, this short film narrates his own life in a style reminiscent of school compositions. His constant...

Stark formal choices counterbalance profound emotions and vulnerability in this poignant lover’s goodbye.

A beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer.

Formal exercise on the use of the foreground and the configuration of the world through detail.

Collage based on the texts and lives of Diane Arbus, Jean Eustache, Robert Walser, Alejandra Pizarnik, Franz Kafka and Carmen Jung.

The title comes from Sergei Yesenin's last poem before comiting suicide. Using Virginia Woolf's last letters as a base, this film is meditation on...

Part of the project for the new feature film that José Luis Torres Leiva is currently preparing. The short film describes the creative process...

A small tribute in memory of the filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.

The clouds over a couple give rise to a story about the small everyday gestures of a world that stops around the disturbing spaces of everyday life.

A stately home, built in 1922, is now a dilapidated stage where memories and history are present in the old home movies starring those that once...

A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change...

Ten segments linked to a primary idea: an evocation of the early cinema images.

The time that Rests is a contemplative look at the daily life of the José Horwitz Barak Hospital, one of the oldest psychiatric facilities in...

Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume...

Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the...