Interviews, profiles and documented research conversations

2026 — Espinoza, Denisse. “Niles Atallah: sembrar una escena.” Mediales.art, 17 July. Profile of the Filmmaker and Fósfora. 

2026 La utopía retorcida — Radio Universidad de Chile — Exhibition interview / feature. 

2025 — Gamba, Pablo. “Conversación con Niles Atallah.” Los Experimentos, 17 September. Extended interview on Merrimundi, puppetry, analog and digital media, music, and the political and imaginative connections between his films. 

2025 — Malacchini, Stefania. “Niles Atallah: cine multidimensional.” Dossier 56, Universidad Diego Portales, October. Long-form interview on Merrimundi, the short-film form, hybrid materials and creative freedom. Photography: Celeste Rojas Mugica. 

2025 — Vera, Constanza. “Merrimundi: La película chilena de animación que critica la falsa utopía social y busca romper el cine ‘homogéneo’.” La Máquina Medio, 20 October. Interview with Niles Atallah, Producer Lucas Engel and Composer Paco Pasquette about the film’s conception, collaborative production and music. 

2024 — Bello, María José. “Niles Atallah: ‘El cine ha prolongado conceptos coloniales en sus patrones narrativos, en su estética y en sus métodos de producción’.” Cinémas d’Amérique latine 32: 122–135. Illustrated Spanish/French interview-based article on artistic formation, Diluvio, colonialism, Rey and Animalia Paradoxa. French translation: Carole Fillière. 

2024 — Jaure, Valeria. “FICVALDIVIA: Entrevista al director de Animalia Paradoxa, Niles Atallah: ‘Intento provocar un movimiento en el imaginario’.” Culturizarte, 8 November. 

2024 — Zouheir, Bilal. “Niles Atallah Interview – Director of ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” Projektor / A Good Movie to Watch, 5 November. Extended conversation on dreams, the apocalypse, political imagination and the creative process of Animalia Paradoxa. 

2024 — Feest, Paula. “Apocalípsis, metaforfosis y el rol del arte: Niles Atallah presenta en cines ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” La Hora, 2 December. Interview on the film’s post-apocalyptic world, metamorphosis and the role of art. 

2024 — Betancour, Felipe. “Niles Atallah, director de ‘Animalia Paradoxa’, y su estreno en el Festival de Cine de Valdivia: ‘Lo que importa es la colectividad que convoca el cine’.” The Clinic, 19 October. Interview on the film’s Chilean premiere, collective filmmaking and film-festival culture. 

2023 — Feodoroff, Nicolas. “Vitanuova: Interview with Niles Atallah.” FIDMarseille, 34th edition. Published Q&A on stop motion, the FICUNAM commission, clay, 16mm and digital processes, sound, and the film’s relationship to Dante. 

2022 — Niehaus-Del-Solar, Matthias. “El cine como vehículo mágico.” Espacio Transdisciplina 1: 22–36. DOI: 10.4206/retd.2022.n1-05. Published transcription of an interview by Matthias Niehaus Del Solar, coordinator of the Línea Vinculante, following the 7 May 2021 Universidad Austral de Chile lecture: Atallah’s path into cinema through music, painting and photography, materials and artistic processes, Diluvio, and the ecology of cinematic forms.

2021 — Rubio Ramírez, Roberto. “Niles Atallah: ‘Todo el cine es animación’.” Interview recorded in June 2019 for master’s research; published 15 May 2021 and updated 17 August 2022. 

2021 — Research interview with Bolesław Racięski, conducted online on 25 January. Documented in the references to Latin American Filmmakers and European Film Funds: Refuse. Resist. Reframe (Routledge, 2026); not a separately published audiovisual recording. 

2019 — Briese, Marianne. “Niles Atallah: ‘Entiendo la imagen como interferencia orgánica’.” Desistfilm, 27 August. Extended interview following the Cuerpo Luminoso 16mm workshop, on buried film stock, image materiality, Rey and experimentation as an artistic and ethical practice. 

2018 — “Tiger Award winner Niles Atallah on his project Rey.” CineSud Magazine, 28 May. 

2018 — García, Marta. “Niles Atallah, director de Rey.” LatAmCinema, 18 January. 

2018 — Águila, Marisol. “Entrevista a Niles Atallah: Rey es el viaje hacia el interior del espíritu o el alma de un fantasma.” El Agente Cine, 18 January. Interview conducted at Transcinema, Lima, in December 2017. 

2018 — Schulting, Guus. “Niles Atallah over Rey.” Filmkrant, 22 August. Dutch-language interview on historical ambiguity, archives, colonial representation and the material treatment of film. 

2018 — “Niles Atallah – Rey.” Interview manuscript prepared for the HOME UK booklet. Extended English-language Q&A preserved in a document dated 1 February; final publication details not established. 

2018 — “Niles Atallah y ‘Rey’: ‘De alguna manera mágica, la consciencia de Orélie Antoine se plasmó en el celuloide’.” Zoomback. Extended interview on the film’s historical research, archives and material experimentation. 

2018 — Marín, Pablo. “El Rey de la Araucanía vuelve al cine.” La Tercera / Culto, 8 January. Reported interview on Rey and its historical interpretation; republished by Patagonia Ambiental on 10 January as “El Rey de la Araucanía y Patagonia vuelve al cine.” 

2018 — Álvarez Pardo, Bastián. “Es difícil hacer películas en Chile, pero está el apoyo de una gran comunidad cinematográfica.” El Día, Magazine, 14 January, pp. 39–40. Interview with Niles Atallah about Rey, its research and independent filmmaking. 

2018 — Gárate M., Francisca. “Niles Atallah, director de ‘Rey’: ‘Me identifico mucho con Orellie Antoine’.” El Mercurio de Valparaíso, Cultura, 13 January, p. 38. Interview following the film’s presentation at Teatro Condell. 

2018 — Ochoa Mardones, Héctor. “Me parece que Orélie Antoine de Tounens era una especie de artista sin querer serlo.” El Austral de la Araucanía, Espectáculos, 13 January, p. 30. Telephone interview with Niles Atallah about Rey. 

2018 — Bahamondes Ch., Pedro. “Revisitando el Wallmapu: la nueva impronta mapuche en la escena local.” La Tercera, 27 January. Cultural report quoting Atallah on Rey, historical representation and colonial imagery. 

2017 — Screen staff. “IFFR Tiger directors: Niles Atallah, ‘Rey’.” Screen Daily, 29 January. Interview accompanying the film’s Rotterdam Tiger Competition presentation. 

2017 — Cox, Rita. “Niles Atallah.” Paula, no. 1242, 30 December; published online by La Tercera on 28 December. Profile and interview on Rey and Atallah’s artistic practice. 

2017 — Reynaldos Quinteros, Antonio. “Niles Atallah, triunfador en Rotterdam: ‘Nunca conseguí fondo alguno. La cinta fue totalmente ignorada en Chile’.” El Mostrador, 6 February. Interview following Rey’s Rotterdam award, discussing production, funding and the film’s historical and aesthetic approach. 

2017 — Vargas Rojas, Vanessa. “Niles Atallah estrena en FICValdivia su película sobre el hombre que se declaró rey de Wallmapu.” El Desconcierto, 14 October. Extended Q&A on Rey, colonial history and cinematic experimentation. 

2017 — “El francés que quiso ser rey de la Patagonia (y casi lo logra).” Diario Río Negro, 24 March; also published by Los Andes as “El francés que fue ‘rey de la Patagonia’, revive en el cine,” 25 March. AFP interview-based report from Cinélatino, with Niles Atallah and Producer Lucie Kalmar. 

2017 — Hidalgo, Diego. “Niles Atallah lleva al Rey de la Araucanía a Rotterdam.” La Tercera, 24 January. Reported interview on the origins, development and Rotterdam presentation of Rey. 

2017 — Atallah, Niles. English-language interview responses on Rey. Archival Q&A manuscript, September. Discusses historical reconstruction, film materiality, funding and national cinema; interviewer and publication not identified. 

2017 — HOME Artist Film. “Niles Atallah Interview” / “Confronting the Unknowns: Niles Atallah on Rey.” Glasgow Film Theatre, 22 December 2017; expanded version, Filmhouse, 4 January 2018. Interview on historical uncertainty, material processes and masks; the two presentations are consolidated here. 

2017 — Atallah, Niles. “Entrevista SECA, Guatemala.” Archival interview responses, November. On formative film experiences, filmmaking and cinematic influences; publication details not established. 

2017 — Cox, Rita. “El cineasta que entierra y desentierra películas.” Paula, 29 December. Extended interview on Rey; portrait by Carolina Vargas. 

2017 — Correspondencias. “Versiones, materia, historia. Entrevista a Niles Atallah.” Correspondencias: cine y pensamiento, no. 1, Primavera 2017, “Cuerpos en tránsito,” May. Interview on Rey, archives, sound and cinematic form. 

c. 2017 — “Tiger #6: Rey – Niles Atallah.” International Film Festival Rotterdam. Interview-based profile on the film’s historical research, archival methods and production. 

2017 — Marambio, Fernando. “Director mantuvo enterrada película por dos años y luego la estrenó.” Las Últimas Noticias, Tiempo Libre, 14 October, p. 47. Interview/report on Rey’s FICValdivia presentation and film-stock experiments. 

2017 — Núñez Escobar, Daniel, and Gonzalo Valdivia Utreras. “Los 20 personajes del año del cine chileno.” Zoomback, December. Year-end profile selection including Niles Atallah and Rey. 

2017 — Flores, Evelin. “Une promenade par l’univers onirique du ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” Fréquences Latines, 15 April. Interview on the film’s historical research and artistic process. 

2011 — Estévez, Antonella, and Patricio López. “Entrevista a Niles Atallah, director de Lucía.” Cinechile, 10 August. In-depth interview on the feature and its creative process. Transcription: Francisca Valdebenito. 

2011 — Ramírez Carrasco, Gustavo E. “Cine expandido: Lucía y el bosque de cristal, una videoinstalación de Niles Atallah.” Cineteca Nacional de México, 20 April; interview conducted 4 April. Conversation on the feature, installation, sound and filmmaking practice. 

2011 — Jans, Emma. “Interview Coup de Cœur Niles Atallah.” Le Blog de La Película / Cinélatino, 20 March. Interview about Lucía, with audiovisual material on the feature and animated shorts. 

2010 — Vásquez, Felipe. “Director de ‘Lucía’ prepara cinta sobre ‘monarca’ de la Araucanía.” Emol, 18 October. Valdivia interview on Lucía’s origins, its central house and San Sebastián reception, and the early development of Rey. 

2010 — “Película chilena Lucía debuta hoy en el festival.” La Tercera, 20 September. Release profile with Atallah’s comments on the film’s production and San Sebastián premiere.