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Chile50: Politics and Aesthetics Screening Three: The Wolf House (Joaquin Cocina & Cristobal Leon, 2018)

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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  • Chile50: Politics and Aesthetics

These film screenings, specially curated and organised by the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) and Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia (FIC Valdivia), commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Chilean Military Coup of 1973. The selected films invite us to reflect upon the challenges of memory and memorialization and the relation between aesthetics and the political. With a focus on materiality (bodies, photo-cameras, various urban or rural landscapes) and a strong emphasis on subjectivity, each of these films also allows us to dwell on the various methodologies of visual representation and the subtleties of the affective worlds and symbolic horizons they explore in their particular genre. Questions about archival practices, fiction and testimony, intimacy and state violence will guide the conversation with the respective directors who will be joining us remotely for each of these screening events.

Curated and organised by: Margarita Palacios (m.palacios@bbk.ac.uk) and Daniela Larraiìn (d.larrain@mail.bbk.ac.uk)

15th December

The Wolf House (Joaquin Cocina & Cristobal Leon, 2018)

Animation film 75 minutes, Chile.
 
Maria, a young woman finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to Maria’s feelings. The animals transform slowly into humans and the house becomes a nightmarish world. Inspired on the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, “The Wolf House” masquerades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers. "The Wolf House" is a feature film where beauty, fear, disorder and the narrative itself are born of the precarious and permanent states of change. It is the story of a beautiful young woman who is held captive, but it is also the story of a physical and mental world that falls apart, destroys itself and renews itself time and again.

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