A ghost in a jar needs a body. She swipes right on corpses. Chilean chaos ensues.
Twisting in from Chile, Guillermo Ribbeck’s phenomenal EMPTY JARS is a stylishly directed dark fantasy set in a decaying student residence where a woman (Ana Burgos, THE SEA) frees a ghost from a jar and works to find it a suitable human vessel to possess. Potent, inventive and wildly entertaining with a prankster heart and a melancholic soul.
Direction
Ribbeck squeezes entire feature-length personality into 21 minutes.
Production
That decaying student residence is a character—sticky, sad, alive.
Acting
Burgos sells impossible chemistry with... air in a jar.
Director
Guillermo Ribbeck Sepúlveda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Valparaíso's hills and fading bohemian energy are essential to the film's liminal, between-worlds feeling—Ribbeck shot in actual student housing during semester break.
The 'prankster heart' in reviews refers to Ribbeck's background in Chilean experimental theater, where audiences never know if they're being mocked or seduced—Blanca's deadpan delivery mirrors this tradition.
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