7,000-year-old mummies get the stop-motion treatment they absolutely deserve.
A stop-motion documentary that describes the artificial mummification (black and red mummies) of the Chinchorro culture, a pre-hispanic society of fishermen and hunter-gatherers who practiced funeral rites with sophisticated techniques for body preservation 7,000 years ago, originating on the Camarones coast of Chile.
Direction
Stop-motion mummification is somehow hypnotic, not gross.
Production
Clay corpses have never looked this dignified.
Director
Carolina Cortés
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Chinchorro practiced mummification 2,000 years before Egyptians, making them the world's first known morticians.
Director Carolina Cortés spent years advocating for Chinchorro mummies' repatriation to Chile from foreign museums.
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