The Film to Come

If any single piece can act as a key to Ruiz it may be the 1997 short Le Film à Venir The Film to Come The titular film is a holy fragment of celluloid that can only be seen by a secret society known as the Philokinetes They watch it on a loop somnambulating through a life that is unreal by comparison It is the belief of the Philokinetes that film has an existence independent from humans Cinema they said is the primeval soup of a new life form There from were to emerge pure screening creatures Which is to say nontopical beings n1