Authored publications

2026 — Atallah, Niles. “El cine como ejercicio diario.” Por un Cine Posible. Authored online essay accompanying the two-session workshop of the same name. 

2025 — Atallah, Niles. Rey: film images, development writings and notebooks. Contribution to a book published by Doha Film Institute, documenting the film’s creative development. Film stills and original development materials published with the Filmmaker’s writing.

2024 — Animation-film teaching programme for Escuela al Cine, Cineteca Nacional de Chile. Curriculum/Course Author for public-school teachers, addressing classroom film and animation education at primary and secondary levels across Chile.

2023 — Atallah, Niles. Contribution on Vitanuova. In UMBRALES 0.2 x Síntesis. Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM / FICUNAM, Mexico. Bilingual printed and digital publication accompanying Umbral 0; commissioned writing on the film’s creative and research process. 

2023 — Atallah, Niles. “Un vehículo de luz.” In Escrito por cineastas, edited by Carolina Urrutia Neno and Marcelo Ferrari. Santiago: La Pollera Ediciones. ISBN 978-956-6267-12-6. Essay in the section “Puestas en abismos”. 

2019 — Atallah, Niles, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. “Manifiesto Diluvio.” Revista Cinemateca, vol. 2, no. 1. Bogotá: Cinemateca de Bogotá / Idartes. Co-authored artistic manifesto. 

2012 — Corpus Somnium — Co-Creator and Writer with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León. Collaborative multimedia website (corpussomnium.org), conceived as Diluvio’s “B-side”: an online cabinet of curiosities bringing together artistic inspirations, writings, fictions and manifestos. Atallah’s writings for the project, published under the persona Dr. Julius L. Somnius, include “A Treatise on the Corpus Somnium”; “Manifesto of the Corpus Somnium”; “Being a Chronicle of Our Navigation in Search of the Creative Mystery of the Great Web of Stories”; “How Do We Escape from Thinking About Thought?”; “Light”; and “Who Are Chico Harry and Dr. Julius Somnius?”