Filming has wrapped on a short titled The Bones, Variety reports, and what’s particularly notable is that the film is being executive produced by Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar).
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña directed the short, a stop-motion horror tale.
Variety details, “The Bones is a dive into recent Chilean history just as the country is drafting a new constitution to replace the current document, which was passed during Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship. The premise is a callback to the world’s supposed first stop-motion animated film. Dated 1901 and excavated in Chile in 2021, the 16mm footage documents a ritual in which a young indigenous girl uses human bones to summon the spirits of the two best known ideologues of conservative Chilean values – founding father Diego Portales and close Pinochet collaborator Jaime Guzmán – to “unwrite” history.”
“With La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House), Cociña and León struck me as the clear successors to Jan Svankmajer and the Quays,” Aster explains to Variety. “Here they seem to be channeling Ladislas Starevich and Joel-Peter Witkin, while sharpening their uncanny and unmistakable signature. Los Huesos is a brilliant film by two utterly singular filmmakers.”
Head over to Variety to learn more and see another first-look image.