(23 Feb 2022) The director of Chilean animated film Bestia spoke of his pride at his short's nomination for an Oscar.
Hugo Covarrubias said while it would be "incredible" to win in the best animated short film category at next month's Academy Awards, it had already "passed a bar" to be nominated.
The film centers on a dark figure from Chile's recent history, Ingrid Olderöck, a woman of German descent, who during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), became one its most feared and powerful women.
A member of the country's police force, the Carabineros, Olderöck is remember for using her dog, Volodia, to rape and torture other women and some men in Santiago's notorious Venda Sexy torture center.
Speaking in his studio in Santiago, Covarrubias explained that, from his point of view, a little bit of Olderöck lives in every Chilean.
"There is evil within all of us...willingly or not, we are also configured by these people," he said in the studio where he made the stop-motion film. "We have something of what Pinochet did. We are configured by those things."
The film uses methods used in the 1960s and 1970s that focuses on the victimizer and not the victims.
What the producers and Covarrubias found most challenging was making the movie without using dialogue through the use of different and varied angles, shots, lighting and effects to tell the story.
The other Oscar nominees in the best animated short film category are Affairs of the Art, Boxballet, Robin Robin and The Windshield Wiper.
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