The Bones (2021)
The Bones
”A girl performs a ritual to free Chile from its feudal heritage, invoking the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State.”
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This Chilean stop motion animation won the best short film award at the Venice Festival 2021. The story revolves around a girl - who looks like she came out of a Tim Burton movie - who performs a ritual to free Chile's kingdom from its feudal heritage. With a macabre atmosphere, the plot has great references to Mary Shelley's classic book 'Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus', with a very strong political context. 'Los Huesos' conveys a powerful message about a country's past that has suffered much oppression and still weaves an analysis of Chile's current situation.
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The world’s first stop-motion animation film is excavated as Chile drafts a new Constitution. The film shows a girl performing a ritual exorcism to free Chile from its feudal heritage. Among a dance of bones, organs, and body parts, the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State are invoked.
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