Fright Club Live: New Latin Horror with The Wolf House (2018)
- Fri, Jan 9
Director: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña Run Time: 105 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2018 Language: Spanish
Starring: Amalia Kassai, Carlos Cociña, Karina Hyland, Natalia Geisse, Rainer Krause
Country: Chile, Germany
Language: Spanish, German
Join us each month for Fright Club Live, the big screen extension of the award-winning podcast, hosted by Hope Madden and George Wolf of Maddwolf.
Meet up with fellow horror movie lovers in The Torpedo Room at 7:30PM and then in the Screening Room at 9PM for the live recording. Tickets are $5, or included with myGFC membership.
About the film:
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.
“Brilliant…really one of the most amazing things that I had ever seen.”
—Ari Aster (Midsommar, Hereditary)
About the filmmakers:
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 America. For the production of their films they combine different techniques such as photography, drawing, sculpture, dance and performance. An unpolished cinematographic language characterizes the stop-motion films of León and Cociña. The papier-mâché figures and innocent-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 (The Wolf House, 2018), was produced as a nomadic work in process art installation in many different public locations like museums, cultural centers and art galleries. Together with Niles Atallah, they founded the film production company Diluvio.
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