La casa lobo

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Movie
Original title La casa lobo
Country of production Chile
original language Spanish , German
Publishing year 2018
length 75 minutes
Rod
Director Joaquín Cociña ,
Cristóbal León
script Joaquín Cociña,
Cristóbal León,
Alejandra Moffat
production Catalina Vergara ,
Niles Atallah
camera Joaquín Cociña,
Cristóbal León
synchronization

La casa lobo (international English-language title The Wolf House ) is a Chilean horror stop-motion - animated film by Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León , who in February 2018 as part of the Berlin Film Festival celebrated its premiere. In the form of a dream narrative, the fears of a young woman named María become visible, who desperately tries to escape an eerie house after she fled the notorious Colonia Dignidad .

action

After escaping from the settlement of the German emigrant sect Colonia Dignidad and such punishment, a young woman named María finds refuge in a hut in the forest in southern Chile. This is inhabited by pigs, while the wolf wanders around in front of the hut as a permanent threat. The hut itself seems to be alive and responding to María's feelings. She's constantly changing shape and size, furniture popping up and disappearing, and the pigs are slowly turning into hands and feet, a boy and a girl named Pedro and Ana. María's refuge turns into a nightmarish world as she increasingly loses her solid form.

production

“With La casa lobo we wanted to make a film that constantly falls apart and then puts itself back together again. We like the organic, the random, the fleeting, the constantly evolving in contrast to the precise, controlled and defined. We try to imagine that everything is material and therefore can be transformed, assembled and mixed up; not only the objects, the surroundings, the bodies, but also the aesthetics and the story. "

- The makers of the film
The artists Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have been working together since 2007 (one of their joint projects in the picture) and both studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña , who also wrote the script together with Alejandra Moffat . Both were born in 1980, León in Santiago, Cociña in Conceptión, and studied design and art together at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. León also studied art and media at the Berlin University of the Arts . In 2007 they founded the production company Diluvio together with Niles Atallah in Santiago and have been working together ever since. They made several short films that have won international awards, such as Lucía in the same year and Luis in the following year . In La casa lobo is her first feature-length film. La casa lobo is the conclusion of a three-part series that explores childhood fears and horror elements in children's fairy tales, here based on the phenomenon of Colonia Dignidad .

During his stay in Germany in 2011, León had the idea for the story that they later finished together. Overall, production took four or five years. The directors had already dealt with topics related to dictatorship and were interested in discussing the concentration of evil in isolated places. In connection with the Chilean fondness for German culture, this led her to the topic of Colonia Dignidad. The sect, which was isolated from the outside world and founded by Germans in the south of Chile in 1961, was notorious for the reign of terror of its leader Paul Schaefer and for his close cooperation with the Pinochet regime.

Most of the shooting of La casa lobo took place as part of a series of exhibitions in museums and galleries, including the Upstream Gallery in Amsterdam, Kampnagel at the Hamburg Summer Festival, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires in Argentina, and the Casa Maauad in Mexico City and in several galleries and museums in Santiago de Chile, such as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes as part of the media biennale. The film was created frame by frame using digital photography.

The film premiered on February 22, 2018 as part of the Berlin Film Festival , where it was shown in the Forum. In June 2018 a performance took place at the Festival d'Animation Annecy , in September 2018 at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián . It was released in Chilean cinemas on November 1, 2018.

reception

Reviews

The film was rated positively by 98 of the critics recorded by Rotten Tomatoes and received 8.1 out of a possible 10 points.

Margarete Wach from the film service describes the film as a series of stories that build on one another but at the same time remain nested in one another, with figures, objects and materials that are constantly changing. The puppet film, which begins like a fairy tale , but tries to capture the horror and horror of a sect, develops a pull that one can hardly avoid. Instead of a rational exploration of an episode that is as real as it is monstrous from the recent history of Chile, the film delivers a meandering dream tale that translates a young woman's fears into dark, fairytale-like picture sequences, says Wach.

Awards (selection)

Festival d'Animation Annecy 2018

Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2018

  • Nomination in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña)

Berlin International Film Festival 2018

Mar del Plata Film Festival 2018

  • Nomination for Best Latin American Film (Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c La casa lobo. In: arsenal-berlin.de. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House). In: Filmdienst. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c d Isabel Mardones Rosa: La casa lobo: Long awaited premiere at the Berlinale. In: goethe.de, February 2018.
  5. ↑ CinEscultura XIII. In: cinescultura.de. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  6. ↑ https://galleryviewer.com/en/gallery/44/upstream-gallery/artists/205/leon-cocina
  7. ^ The Wolf House. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 18, 2020.