2007
Stop-motion short, 3 minutes 50 seconds; frame-by-frame digital photographs. Part 1 of Lucía, Luis y el lobo.
Lucía — animated short
Lucía remembers a mysterious summer of love with Luis as a bedroom and the traces of its past seem to come alive through stop-motion animation.
Co-Written and Co-Directed by Niles Atallah, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. Cinematography, Editing, Art Direction, Animation, Sound Design, Image Post-Production and Colorist credits shared by all three. Production: Diluvio. Voice: Paula Florencia Navarrete. Art Direction Assistance: Natalia Geisse.
Awards and distinctions
2010 Court-Bouillon, France — Grand Prix and Audience Award.
2010 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria — ASIFA Austria Award and Audience Award, International Competition Animation Avantgarde.
2010 Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco, United States — Grand Jury Prize.
2009 Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia — Grand Prix Wooden Wolf Prize.
2009 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival — Special Jury Prize.
2009 Fantoche, Baden, SwitzerlandSaved copy — First Prize / Best International Film.
2009 FIBABC, Madrid, Spain — Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film.
2009 16th FICValdivia, Chile — Special Jury Mention.
2008 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany — Literaturwerkstatt Berlin Prize.
2008 Fair Play Film and Video Award Festival, Lugano, Switzerland — Second Place Award.
Festivals and screenings
2008 Discovering Latin America, London, United Kingdom — Festival selection.
2008 Fair Play Film and Video Award Festival, Lugano, Switzerland — Competition / second prize.
2008 Interfilm, Berlin, Germany — International short-film festival.
2008 Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Havana, Cuba — Festival selection.
2008 Product Festival of Contemporary Art, Varna, Bulgaria — Art / moving-image festival.
2008 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany — Poetry-film competition / award.
2009 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival — Lab Competition.
2009 16th FICValdivia, Chile — Short-film selection / jury mention.
2009 Animated Dreams, Tallinn, Estonia — Animation festival / award.
2009 Fantoche, Baden, Switzerland — International Competition.
2009 FIBABC, Madrid, Spain — Short-film competition / award.
2009 European Media Arts Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany — Festival selection.
2009 Breda International Film Festival, Breda, Netherlands — Festival selection.
2010 ANIMAC, Lleida, Spain — Muestra Internacional de Cine de Animación de Cataluña.
2010 Cannes Short Film Corner, France — Short Film Corner — market presentation.
2010 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Festival screening.
2010 Court-Bouillon, France — Festival selection; awards recorded above.
2010 Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco, United States — Festival selection; Grand Jury Prize.
2010 Offscreen / Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium — Festival presentation.
2010 Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland — Festival selection.
2010 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria — Animation Avantgarde competition; awards recorded above.
2012 Premiers Plans, Angers, France — 7 en Région; joint presentation, Lucía + Luis.
2013 Cineteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago — Visiones Laterales #3: Diluvio, presented by laFuga.
2017 Transcinema, Lima, Peru — Niles Atallah retrospective.
2018 FICValdivia, Chile — Muestra Especial 25° Aniversario; Lucía and Luis.
2020 Play FICValdivia, Chile — Online Niles Atallah focus.
2022 Corriente, Arequipa, Peru — Continentes fílmicos: Fantasmagorías precipitadas.
2024 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Otra mirada: Casa Creativa Diluvio.
2024 Centro Arte Alameda, Santiago, Chile — Diluvio short-film retrospective, December.
2025 CINETORO, Roldanillo, Colombia — ¿Lo que suena vive?; screening at INTEP.
Exhibitions
c. 2007–2008 Sewn / Sewn + In/Out China — East Asia Contemporary, Shanghai, China.
2007 Kunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany.
2007 Romance — Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile.
2008 Illustrative 08, Zürich, Switzerland.
2008 After the Light — Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany.
2008 arteBA, Feria Internacional de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008 Estéticas del Desastre — Magatzems Wall Vídeo, Valencia, Spain.
2009 7ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
2009 Illustrative 09, Berlin, Germany.
2009 Beijing 798 Art Biennale, Beijing, China.
2009 Inverosímil — Galería Vértice, Lima, Peru.
2009 Comunidad Ficticia — Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile.
2009 Lucía, Luis y el lobo — Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile.
2010 Grand Slam: Dopplergruppen — Büro Adalbert, Berlin, Germany.
2010 CHACO Contemporary Art Fair, Santiago, Chile.
2010 Upstream Cinema — Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2010 Lucía & Luis — Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil.
2011 Art in the Auditorium III — Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon — Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León.
2011 Art in the Auditorium III — Ballroom Marfa / Crowley Theater, Marfa, Texas, United States — Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León.
2011 Art in the Auditorium III — İstanbul Modern Sinema, Istanbul, Turkey — Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León.
2011 Art in the Auditorium III — Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2011 Art in the Auditorium — Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 Art in the Auditorium — City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
2011 Art in the Auditorium — Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway.
2011 Art in the Auditorium — GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy.
2011 Art in the Auditorium — Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.
2011 Draw and Do Not Waste Time — Salon Akademii, Warsaw, Poland.
2020 Encierro, monstruos y fantasía — Museo Moderno en Casa, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Online presentation of Lucía and Luis, with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León.
Support
c. 2007 Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, FONDART, Chile — Support for the Lucía, Luis y el lobo animated-film project.
“It’s an eerie work of creepy beauty.”
Film stills
Explore this project
Lucía, Luis y el lobo — production photographsRomanceEncierro, monstruos y fantasíaArt in the AuditoriumGrand Slam: DopplergruppenCHACO Contemporary Art Fair, Santiago, Chile.Upstream CinemaLucía & Luis7ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.Illustrative, Berlin, Germany.Beijing 798 Art Biennale, Beijing, China.InverosímilComunidad FicticiaIllustrative, Zürich, Switzerland.Draw and Do Not Waste TimeAfter the LightarteBA, Feria Internacional de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Estéticas del DesastreSewn / Sewn + In/Out ChinaKunsthalle Berlin-Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany.CINETORO, Valle del Cauca, ColombiaTranscinema, Lima, Peru — Foco Niles AtallahVisiones Laterales #3: Diluvio (Atallah, León y Cociña) + Juan Pablo Langlois