Cristóbal León

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

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.

Inspired by real events, "Bestia" enters the life of a secret police agent in the military dictatorship in Chile. The relationship with her dog, her body, her fears and frustrations, reveal a macabre fracture in her mind and a country.

Using human corpses and invoking the spirits of two damned Secretaries of State, a girl performs a ritual to free the kingdom of Chile from its feudal heritage.

"Golpe a golpe" (Family coup) was a Chilean television sitcom from the 1970s and 1980s. In this series, the family of the stern anti-communist dictator Augusto Pinochet found themselves forced to share their home with the spirit of the late former socialist president Salvador Allende, who was portrayed by a puppet. This short film aims to salvage this show's existence by extracting fragments from its surviving material.

In "Los Andes", a restless primal spirit takes possession of an office room. Drawings appear on the walls, plant-like forms sprout from the computer and overgrow the desktop. As it finds it way trough the office space, the mysterious entity transforms into the limbs of a giant and dissolves again.

Between 2010 and 2011, Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña created the series of short-films “The Third World”. The series is made up of “Padre.Madre”, “EL Templo” and “El Arca”. The films were shown together as a film installation at Upstream Gallery. These films are the foundational chapters of a new creed. They present a savage procession, moving between sacred and intimate, beautiful and horrific, canonical and arbitrary, sublime and bestial. Every film is the beginning of a myth and also its immediate decadence.

In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.

Diana is the princess of an ancient kingdom. Her mother dies while giving birth and her father, King Arthur, forbids love in the kingdom. Now a grown woman, Diana falls in love with a young nomad, Lalo, who gives her a magic bracelet as a token of his love. One day the King discovers them and banishes Lalo. Desperate, Diana uses the bracelet, which transports her to an unknown world, where she lives happily with her beloved Lalo. However, the plans to formalise their relationship are cut short when her father has an accident. Diana jumps to other universes, embarking on a nightmarish journey in search of love. Learning that her father manipulates her decisions, she must confront her fears and change her destiny.

In his travels through the southern sea of Chile, the privateer Francis Drake discovered a strange island. The extraordinary events that he lived there described in his travel diary have disappeared just like the island.

In a world eaten by darkness, a ghostly interference conveys the tale of two souls who, in their final act of love, cast a spell to become a candle: An eternal flame that defies the infinite gloom. Through the distorted echo, its light flickers like a whisper of resistance in an endless abyss.

Lucía remembers the summer when she fell in love with Luis and her fear of the dark.

Luis talks about his life in the forest and how he fell in love with Lucía.

The Tale of the Dog is a short film made in five days by the participants of an intensive workshop guided by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña in Balmaceda Arte Joven.

Jaime Guzmán, the main ideologist of the Pinochet dictatorship and author of the Chilean Constitution, slips into a witch's dream. She confronts her different personifications and tries to drive away her visitor using witchcraft. She curses, sings, dances and reintroduces herself in alternative versions of herself.

Short film by Cristóbal León & Paula Salas.

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An animation film in which two papier-mâché puppets are stalked in a sequence of sexual, bestial, and solemn acts. A ceremony which presents the beginning of a myth and its immediate decadence. (Part of the trilogy "The Third World." The films of the series "The Third World" are the foundational chapters of a new creed. They present a procession moving between sacred and intimate, beautiful and horrific, canonical and arbitrary.)

An intergalactic traveler cares for various beasts aboard a ship. An unexpected disaster will give rise to a new type of creature.