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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Director
Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
Script
Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
Cinematographer
Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León, Niles Atallah
Editor
Joaquín Cociña
Producer
Lucas Engel
Sound
Roberto Espinoza, Tim Fain
Score
Tim Fain
Animation
Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
Executive Producer
Adam Butterfield, Ari Aster, Lucas Engel