The Wolf House
The Wolf House
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
The Wolf House (La Casa Lobo)
Sunday October 20, 2024, 7:30pm
At 2220 Arts + Archives, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90057
Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors, free for Filmforum members
At https://link.dice.fm/h4972c68837d
Collective trauma retold as a shadowy fairy tale.
Mixing together cues from The Three Little Pigs, The Brothers Grimm, and Alice in Wonderland, this surreal nightmare unfolds one frame at a time. In the hellish regime of Chilean dictator Auguste Pinochet, an isolated Nazi run commune flourished in which numerous children and political dissidents were tortured and abused.
La Casa Lobo is a hooded film with grime, soot, dust, and charcoal littering the environ of each room. There is no respite. There is no reprieve. The style of animation, called simultaneously palimpsest, destructive, or draw & erase, is a constant stream of change. The characters warp and shift changing mediums as they change forms. Characters are constantly painted over again and again and again creating a new image while, also, still showing the previous ones. The history of each shot cannot be erased fully, the ebbing remains.
In order to expedite the lengthy animation process and respect the ever-changing nature of the project, the filmmakers employed a Dogme 95-esque series of ten rules. Among them, no puppets were rigged, no shots fade to black, and the film is one long continuous shot. The final rule, number 10, may be the most revealing; “it’s a workshop, not a set”, a phrase reminiscent of another, “it’s a promise, not a threat”.
Slate Lines
Slate Lines
By Sarah Jenkins
USA, 2018, color/sound, 3 minutes
Using the forest itself as a creative partner, artist Sarah Jenkins utilizes a similar palimpsest technique as León & Cociña to imbue their lines with a life their own. The piece was created on site at an artist residency in the post-industrial slate mining town of Corris, Wales. All audio was recorded on site and remixed in the studio. A portrait of sun dappled rocks and moss concealing edges unknown.
Queenie and the all or nothing king
Queenie and the all or nothing king
By Benni Quintero
USA, 2018, color/sound, 4 minutes
Born and raised Angeleno, Benni Quintero, created this film using a variety of non conventional material including glitter, paint, and fabric. This richly textured manifestation of anxiety and compulsion presents our protagonist, Queenie, as a island to herself.
The Wolf House (La Casa Lobo)
The Wolf House (La Casa Lobo)
By Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña
Chile, 2018, color/sound, 75 minutes
Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña (both 1980, Chile) have been working together since 2007. They were educated at the Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile. León also studied at UDK (Berlin) and De Ateliers (Amsterdam).With their experimental films, Leon and Cociña create a new interpretation of the religious symbolism and magical rituals that are deeply rooted in the traditional culture of Latin Amer-ica. For the production of their films they combine different techniques such as photogra-phy, drawing, sculpture, dance and performance. An unpolished cinematographic language characterizes the stop-motion films of León and Cociña. The papier mâché figures and inno-cent-looking drawings strongly contrast with the heavy topics such as religion, sex and death the films deal with.León and Cociña have won numerous awards and their films have premiered at Rotterdam and Locarno among other international film festivals. Their work is frequently exhibited in museums and biennials in Latin America, but it has also been presented at venues such as the Whitechapel Gallery, the Guggenheim, KW Berlin, the Venice Biennial 2013 and Art Basel Statements 2012 with Upstream Gallery.Their first feature film, ‘La Casa Lobo’, was produced as a nomadic work in process art installa-tion in many different public locations like museums, cultural centers and art galleries. To-gether with Niles Atallah, they founded the film production company Diluvio.