Directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
Chile | 2018 | 72 mins
Source: Kim Stim
Produced painstakingly over the course of several years, and filmed piecemeal within art galleries across several countries, in full view of the gallery-going public, The Wolf House masquerades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers. It uses stop-motion animation to unfurl a never-ending series of transformations that play out as a single sequence shot.
“The Wolf House, an astounding new animated film from Chile, has a cheeky meta-film opening that purports to be from “La Colonia” — a slight variant of the very real-life Colonia Dignidad, a German-founded isolated colony in Chile renowned for its honey and disdained for its exploitation of the labor of Chilean natives. The first clever conceit of this movie is that it, too, is a product of that colony, one with a lesson. What follows is the story of Maria, an escapee from there, who finds a house in the forest where she holes up with two pigs who become her adopted children. Together they live in terror of a wolf at the door. “~ New York Times, May 14
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