Variety says that filming on a short named The Bones has ended, and it’s worth noting that Ari Aster is executive producing the picture. Ari Aster is an American film director and screenwriter who has worked on films such as Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019).
Ari Aster’s feature film directorial debut, Hereditary, is a 2018 American supernatural horror thriller written and directed by him. Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, and Gabriel Byrne feature as a family who is haunted by a mystery presence after their secretive grandmother’s death. When the Graham family matriarch dies, her daughter and grandchildren begin to piece together cryptic and scarier stories about their ancestors in an attempt to avoid inheriting a horrible fate.
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Ari Aster’s Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, and Will Poulter, and written and directed by Ari Aster. It follows a group of friends who travel to Sweden for a once-in-a-90-year celebration, only to fall into the clutches of a Scandinavian pagan cult.
Keeping in mind both these earlier movies, we can only expect good things from Aster. The story of The Bones is as follows. The Bones is a journey through recent Chilean history, set against the backdrop of the country’s current constitution, which was drafted during Augusto Pinochet’s horrific dictatorship. The idea is a nod to what is thought to be the world’s first stop-motion animated picture. The 16mm footage, which dates from 1901 and was discovered in Chile in 2021, depicts a ritual in which a young indigenous girl uses human bones to summon the spirits of two of Chile’s most well-known conservative ideologues, founding father Diego Portales and close Pinochet collaborator Jaime Guzmán, to be able to “unwrite” history.
The stop-motion horror film was directed by Cristóbal León and Joaqun Cocia. Aster had high words of praise for the duo especially with regards to the film, Los Huesos.
