Cosmovision · 6 min read
Karukinka: the territory as a character
Karukinka — Tierra del Fuego — is not a backdrop in this story. It is a character with its own will.
Karukinka is the name the Selk'nam gave their land: the main island of Tierra del Fuego, shared today between Chile and Argentina. For them it was not a territory to be owned; it was a body to be inhabited.
Landscape design
There is intention in every scene: dense Magellanic forest to the south, open pampas to the north, the grey sea reminding us this is an island. Each location was researched on the ground and reinterpreted by the art direction team.
The 1890 fracture
The year we set the story in marks the beginning of the Selk'nam genocide. We don't show the horror head-on — this is a family film — but a sense of threat permeates every shot of the third act. The land itself becomes a witness.