Nominated for this year’s Oscars, Chilean short film “Bestia” (Beast) uses animation, an art form more often associated with children’s movies, to deal with a macabre topic: the sexual torture of women.
The 15-minute film about the life of Ingrid Olderock — a particularly cruel agent of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet — took 20 people three years to make.
It tells a story of the inner struggles of Olderock, the daughter of German Nazi sympathizers, who made it her life’s work to psychologically break women, prisoners, including using dogs to sexually assault them.
Olderock (1944-2001) worked at a detention center that specialized in the sexual torture of leftist Pinochet opponents.
