Kike Ortega

The life of the composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist Violeta Parra, in stop-motion animation.

Right after she awakes, an elderly woman’s bedroom comes to life. Visions of fear, cruelty, threat and domestic violence manifest themselves between the room’s four walls. This experimental film uses psychedelic stop-motion animation to depict the final moments of a life characterised by suffering.

An insecure young Selk'nam named Telkoy, prepares for his rite of passage, a tradition of his people in Tierra del Fuego. To become a man, he must choose between following his beliefs of his people or risk his life to protect his own.

PAJARONES is an irreverent comedy web-series that captures the best of Chilean idiosyncrasy in an absurdly minimalist, stop-motion cardboard world where anything can happen. Picu and Chelo, two inseparable birds from a faraway city, meet every day on a bench to exchange surreal anecdotes about their new lives as university students in the capital.