Ricardo Carrasco

Stories centered around the last hours of someone's life. Each episode takes place in one place and with no more than three or four characters.

Jose is an elderly rebel who, after being refused a withdrawal at a bank, returns with a gun and threatens to shoot himself if he doesn't get his cash. Pedro, a young teller, is disillusioned with his life and sees Jose's stunt as a way out when he pretends to be taken hostage, leaving the bank with the old man and a hefty amount of money. The unlikely duo become friends, picking up tough-girl Ana along the way, while avoiding the police.

A taxi driver is given a difficult choice from 2 small time crooks: drive them around while they rob, or get locked up in the trunk.

Pancho Veloso, an old writer of celebrity articles, returns to his hometown of Chilean Patagonia after more than 40 years of having fled. When trying to write "salable" stories about that area so called "the end of the world", he will face his past and leave his imposture.

After a long absence, Negro Torres returns to his hometown, in Cunco, to attend his mother's funeral. There, his old cronies propose him to set up a business to buy seafood and then sell them. After improvising the preparations and returning to the town with the seafood, they face a big surprise

The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.

Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the south of Chile, the place where he was born.

On Thursday, April 2, 1987, thousands of young people came to the National Stadium in Santiago de Chile to meet Pope John Paul II. After many years, young people would be able to meet freely and make their voices heard. (Introductory text at the beginning of this documentary).

Video made by the Audiovisual Writers Workshop formed by Rodrigo Maturana in 1987. This work is the product of improvisation for three weeks, in the courtyards of the Sacred Heart school of the Alameda.

The story centers on a Chinese restaurant where three office colleagues come together to celebrate. An understatement with the account gives rise to an argument that will lead to problems with Chang, the owner of the restaurant and the Mapuche chef, Lautaro

Video following the poet and journalist from Valparaíso, Manuel Astica Fuentes, one of the leaders of the Chilean army uprising that occurred in 1931.

The history of Gaston Soublette, his life and work as a teacher and intellectual of his time and how it influenced ours, a group of students from Campus Oriente during the 80's and how it has influenced many others.

The life of young people in the Villa Wolf sector in the town of La Pincoya at the end of the eighties. Work carried out thanks to the Soinde health program, Conchalí office and the La Ventana cultural center.