17.6.2022
14 Minutes

Los Huesos

14 Minutes Chile
Cinematheque TLV Theatre 2
17.6.2022, 14:00

Los Huesos

14 Minutes Chile
Cinematheque TLV Theatre 2
17.6.2022, 14:00

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.

Best in the World
Director: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
Cinematography: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Niles Atallah
Editor: Joaquín Cociña
Screenwriter: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
Year: 2021