Vizcaya University of the Americas

Ensenada Campus

La casa lobo by Joaquin Locaña and Criastobal Leon

Presented by:

Alan Ivan Tellez Zavala

English I

Presents:

Marielle Corleone

Ensenada Baja California a, November 25, 2022.

Contenido
Summary of The Wolf House.................................................................................................4

Analysis..................................................................................................................................4

Director Biography................................................................................................................4

Symbolism of The Wolf House...............................................................................................5

Recording the film.................................................................................................................7

 Summary of The Wolf House
Presented with flashbacks, the film introduces us to Maria, a blonde woman who
manages to escape the German colonies settled in Chile. In the middle of the forest he
found refuge in a small wooden house where two little pigs lived. Immediately after the
animals became human, Maria assumed the role of mother and decided to name them Ana
and Pedrito. Despite the main character's efforts to start over and forget the painful
memories of the past, the wolf stalks every corner of the modest building with his secret
gaze and haunting voice.

This would be the whole summary of the movie but as data you can mention the
following ...

The story of La Casa Lobo is loosely inspired by the anecdotes of some of the
survivors of the so-called Colonia Dignidad, a German sect founded in Chile at the end of
World War II. Its leader, Paul Schäfer, was a Nazi sympathizer who fled Germany after
being accused of sexually abusing a pair of minors. In the eyes of Chilean society, this
remote commune was a place of harmony, propelled by its multiple agricultural activities.
However, life inside the colony was completely different from the angelic image that was
shown to the outside. A place where the worst atrocities were commanded by its leader, and
affected not only the inhabitants of the colony, but also the dissidents of the dictatorship of
Augusto Pinochet.

Analysis

Director Biography
Joaquín Cociña was born in Concepción, Chile, in 1980. He is a visual artist and
filmmaker. He currently resides and works in Amsterdam. Degree in Visual Arts from the
Catholic University of Chile and Master in Literary Criticism from the University of Chile.
He has participated in artistic residencies in Holland and France.

Cristóbal León studied Design at the Catholic University of Chile, obtained a

DAAD scholarship in 2007 and went to Berlin for a one-year program at the UdK in 2009.
In 2011, León became a participating artist in 'The Ateliers' in Amsterdam. He is also the
brother of Alejandro León, an architect and occasional artist.

Symbolism of The Wolf House

La casa lobo is a suggestive, symbolic and dreamlike film that establishes a
precedent in the History of Chilean cinema as it is the first feature film made through the
technique of stop motion, animation that consists of pretending the movement of static
objects through a series of successive still images.

This work took five years to make and portrays the atmosphere of the infamous
Colonia Dignidad, a German sect that functioned as a center for prison, torture and
disappearance of opponents during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), and
that was founded and directed by the former Nazi military Paul Schäfer, who escaped from
Germany on accusations of pedophilia and who on Chilean soil continued to commit abuses
protected by a network of allies of the political right.

A lysergic nightmare, the delirium of loneliness and abandonment handled to say

enough. "Casa Lobo" has unique virtues, Maria's voice-over, disturbing and difficult to
forget and a mysterious artistic direction that traps you in its hypnotic mutation and that
although it becomes indecipherable at times is edited with an admirable craftsmanship, with
which stop-motion flows as the center and vertex of its narrative.
 Despite its initial impact and its more than intense and different animation, we
witness with a dazed aftertaste a sinister mixture of allegory, popular folklore and perverse
communication of an inspiring but subdued fable, shocking but repetitive, dreamy but
disastrous ... All the script work is still confusing, which we find tiring at times and
repetitive.

It creates a tense and dark environment that does not materialize and that makes
each sequence vehement, not knowing what to expect, maintaining tension. That rewriting
of fairy tales, or that mixture of stories that disrupts the collective imagination, creating a
new version or fable is a forceful and accomplished work, but without achieving a
grandiloquent result.

Although La Casa Lobo evokes the spirit of several children's stories, this is a horror
film not suitable for children. An experimental film that uses its distinctive prose to
highlight one of the darkest and most controversial episodes of the South American nation.
Like any piece of art, La Casa Lobo incites an immediate emotional reaction, but also
invites the viewer to make a deep reflection and to continue investigating the subject once
the screening is over. A disturbing fable that in addition to giving us a hard history lesson,
warns us of those wolves that appear good-natured under the guise of lamb.

It is a very meritorious work by the visual artists Cristóbal León and Joaquín
Cociña, perhaps not intended to satisfy all types of audiences, but a waste of talent put on a
valuable film that should be a must for anyone interested in this type of animation. You can
see La Casa Lobo from today in alternative rooms of our country.
 Recording the film
The Wolf House was recorded over several years, in various locations around the
world, where directors installed life-size sets in galleries and museums. His studio is a
mobile space that can be built almost anywhere. As a living work, the artists worked in
each place and the spectators could witness the process.
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