Few worlds in cinema are as unmistakable as those of Chilean visual-art virtuosos Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, whose astonishing craft is matched by the intricacy of what it explores. Drawing on a plurality of animation techniques, their cinema builds a densely layered realm of fantasy, folk, horror, and existentialism, one where the constructed space feels like a protagonist, always mutating, accreting and collapsing. That restless materiality is the instrument with which they burrow into the authoritarianism and constitutional afterlife...
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