Los Huesos
Winner of the Orizzonti Award for the Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival 2021.
"Los Huesos" is a fictitious account of the world’s first stop-motion animated film. Dated 1901 and excavated in 2021 as Chile drafts a new Constitution, the footage documents a ritual performed by a girl who appears to use human corpses. Emerging in the ritual are two central figures in the construction of authoritarian and oligarchic Chile: Diego Portales and the then-unborn Jaime Guzmán, minister of Pinochet's dictatorship who drafted a neoliberal constitution in 1980, and Diego Portales, a minister and intellectual of the Chilean oligarchic tradition, as well as the mind behind the 1833 Chilean Constitution. "Los Huesos" is a false discovery of global audiovisual culture, highlighting both the morbidity of the animation technique, as well as the radical transformation of Chile's political and social contingency.
Winner of the Orizzonti Award for the Best Short Film at the Venice Film Festival 2021.
"Los Huesos" is a fictitious account of the world’s first stop-motion animated film. Dated 1901 and excavated in 2021 as Chile drafts a new Constitution, the footage documents a ritual performed by a girl who appears to use human corpses. Emerging in the ritual are two central figures in the construction of authoritarian and oligarchic Chile: Diego Portales and the then-unborn Jaime Guzmán, minister of Pinochet's dictatorship who drafted a neoliberal constitution in 1980, and Diego Portales, a minister and intellectual of the Chilean oligarchic tradition, as well as the mind behind the 1833 Chilean Constitution. "Los Huesos" is a false discovery of global audiovisual culture, highlighting both the morbidity of the animation technique, as well as the radical transformation of Chile's political and social contingency.
