The article reviews the notion of "performative cinema" based on the artistic installations that the Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz presented in the 90s in contempo-rary art centers. It is proposed that these installations functioned as a type of film made by non-traditional media, which investigated the crisis of cinema and its definitive transformation during those years. Specifically through the installation 139 Usted esta aqui (1992), the paper works on intermediality, the convergence of artistic languages, fiction-documentary transitions and the history of cinema. Among the conclusions, Ruiz's installation legacy is projected to local practices of con-temporary art, whether artistic processes that experiment with technologies, or curatorial projects that have proposed experiential wanderings. Methodologically, the research employs secondary literature to review a concept, and documents and interviews to reconstruct the artistic piece.