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The Divisions of Nature (1978)
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
Documentary, TV Movie · 29m
Ruiz on the film: "Les Divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a 'realist', although the film is more 'nominalist' in characterization of the castle which presents itself as a representation). I say that it is a representation, since it is neither practical for military purposes (too many doors), nor to live in (too many draughts), but only as pure representation. So for the commentary, I tried to imagine how a Renaissance philosopher would view it in a pastiche of a scholastic or gothic text, then a pastiche of Fichte's Vocation of Man and finally a pastiche of Baudrillard."
Crew
- Director
- Raúl Ruiz
- Director of Photography
- Henri Alekan
Details
- Original title
- Les divisions de la nature : Quatre regards sur le château de Chambord
- Release date
- 1978-01-01
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Documentary, TV Movie
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- France 2 Cinéma, INA