The Bones

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The Bones

Los huesos
Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
International Competition Short Film 2021
Animated Film
Chile
2021
14 minutes
Spanish
subtitles: 
English, German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing

With reference to Władysław Starewicz’s animation film experiments with insects, the Chilean artist duo León and Cociña develop a fictitious counter-narrative to the history of the stop motion technique – and a vision of a Chile liberated from autocrats. A pigtailed girl in puppet form confidently handles the remains of the authoritarian power tradition, in the shape of morbidly staged body parts of two symbolic representatives of the oligarchy and Pinochet’s dictatorship – Diego Portales and Jaime Guzmán.

Borjana Gaković

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Joaquín Cociña
Cristóbal León
Lucas Engel
Cristóbal León
Adam Butterfield
Ari Aster
Joaquín Cociña
Cristóbal León
Natalia Geisse
Roberto Espinoza
Niles Atallah
Joaquín Cociña
Joaquín Cociña
Joaquín Cociña
Cristóbal León
Joaquín Cociña
Cristóbal León
Niles Atallah
Tim Fain
Tim Fain
Lucas Engel
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