Two minutes of ancient gods, hand-painted chaos, and zero patience for your attention span.
Direction
José Castillo crams centuries of iconography into 120 seconds.
Practical Effects
Hand-painted cel animation—every frame bleeds with labor.
Director
José Castillo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent deity central to Aztec, Toltec, and Maya cosmology—Castillo visualizes the divine duality of earth and sky.
This emerged from Mexico's 1990s experimental animation scene, where artists used limited resources to reclaim pre-Columbian narratives from colonial historiography.
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