Evoking Colonia Dignidad, an infamous torture colony operating during the Pinochet regime, The Wolf House is an animated film unlike any other, and an exquisitely handcrafted surrealist docu-horror-fairy tale about one of Chile's darkest periods. It begins with Mary, a young girl who hides in a mysterious house in southern Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. Using stop-motion techniques and combining elements of various fables, photography, drawing, sculpture, and stage performance, Joaquín Cociña, and Cristóbal León have created a nightmarish shapeshifter of a film.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Three short films by Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León:
- WEATHERVENE by Joaquín Cociña (2010 / 3'25")
- DER KLEINERE RAUM (THE SMALLER ROOM) by Cristóbal León and Nina Wehrle (2009 / 2'21")
- LA BRUJA Y EL AMANTE (THE WITCH AND THE LOVE)
- Original trailer
- In Spanish, with English subtitles