2008
Stop-motion short, 3 minutes 50 seconds; frame-by-frame digital photographs. Part 2 of Lucía, Luis y el lobo.
Luis
Luis recalls life in a forest and his love for Lucía from inside a room where memory, objects and architecture transform 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. Voice Assistant: Gabriela Aguilera. Production Assistance: Elisa Gil.
Awards and distinctions
2010 Guggenheim YouTube Play: one of the Top 25 selected videos, exhibited in New York.
2010 Court-Bouillon, France — Grand Prix and Audience Award.
2010 Cinematou, Geneva, Switzerland — Cinematou Award.
2010 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria — ASIFA Austria Award and Audience Award, International Competition Animation Avantgarde.
2010 Animafest Zagreb, Croatia — Special Award.
Festivals and screenings
2009 Breda International Film Festival, Netherlands — Festival selection.
2009 European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany — EMAF selection.
2009 Kunstfilm Biennale, Cologne and Bonn, Germany — Moving-image biennial.
2010 ANIMAC, Lleida, Spain — Muestra Internacional de Cine de Animación de Cataluña.
2010 Animafest Zagreb, Croatia — World Festival of Animated Film; Special Award.
2010 Cannes Short Film Corner, France — Short Film Corner — market presentation.
2010 Cinematou, Geneva, Switzerland — Festival selection; award.
2010 Cinélatino, Toulouse, France — Festival screening.
2010 Court-Bouillon, France — Festival selection; awards recorded above.
2010 Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco, United States — Festival screening of Luis.
2010 Encounters, Bristol, United Kingdom — Festival selection.
2010 Filmfest Dresden, Germany — International short-film festival selection.
2010 International Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany — Animated-film festival selection.
2010 Offscreen / Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium — Festival presentation.
2010 Tampere Film Festival, Finland — Festival selection.
2010 Vienna Independent Shorts, Austria — Animation Avantgarde competition; awards recorded above.
2010 Festival Cine//B 3, Santiago, Chile — Opening programme, Plaza Norte, Centro Gabriela Mistral (GAM).
2012 Premiers Plans, Angers, France — 7 en Région; joint presentation, Lucía + Luis.
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
2008 Illustrative 08, Zürich, Switzerland.
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 — Exhibition of the two-part animated-film series, including Luis.
2010 YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video — Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States; Top 25 selection.
2010 Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale — KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
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.
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
2007 Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, FONDART, Chile — Development support for Luis, part of the Lucía, Luis y el lobo animated-film project.
“too damn beautiful and hypnotic.”
Images
Explore this project
Lucía — animated shortDiluvio GalleryLucía, Luis y el lobo — production photographsDel Cóndor al Oso: 75 años de animación chilenaEncierro, 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.YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative VideoHighlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennaleCINETORO, Valle del Cauca, ColombiaCentro Arte Alameda, Santiago, ChileCinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, France — Otra mirada: Casa Creativa DiluvioCorrienteTranscinema, Lima, Peru — Foco Niles Atallah