2026 — al-Sharif, Basma. “Undercurrents 9 — Swan Songs.” Courtisane Festival programme essay. Discusses Merrimundi in relation to Morgenkreis and Slet 1988.
Open entry2026 — Equipo Culto. “Obras de Niles Atallah y León & Cociña se reúnen en una exposición de video.” La Tercera, 17 August. Utopía retorcida exhibition report.
Open entry2026 — Julio, Tatiana. “Utopía retorcida: un mundo perturbadoramente reconocible.” Mediales.art, 28 August. Discusses Merrimundi, wawawall and the material works in the Arrayán Espacio exhibition.
Open entry2026 — El Ciudadano. “‘Aqua Vitae’: Niles Atallah inaugura exposición fotográfica en Casa Fósfora este viernes 5 de junio.” 5 June. Report on the exhibition, Taller Espora and Casa Fósfora.
Open entry2025 — Meza, María Eugenia. “De fantasmas y monstruos nacionales.” Revista Primer Plano, 27 May. Comparative essay including Animalia Paradoxa.
Open entry2025 — Navarro, AJ. “‘Animalia Paradoxa’, un cuento de hadas posmoderno sobre la capacidad de soñar.” La Crónica de Hoy, 3 January. Review of Animalia Paradoxa.
Open entry2024 — Sofuoğlu, Öykü. “Animalia Paradoxa — Niles Atallah [Fantasia Fest ’24 Review].” In Review Online, 31 July.
Open entry2024 — Depolo, Octavia. “Animalia Paradoxa: Futuros lacrimógenos.” laFuga 28. Review linking the film’s ruined spaces, performance, handmade animation and political imagination.
Open entry2024 — Pérez, Ángel. “Animalia paradoxa, de Niles Atallah: una película anfibia.” Rialta, 13 August.
Open entry2024 — Kush, Nick. “Fantasia Film Festival 2024 Review: ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” MovieBabble, 3 August.
Open entry2024 — Gray, Carmen. “Animalia Paradoxa.” The Film Verdict, 31 January. Rotterdam review of the feature.
Open entry2024 — Chaw, Walter. “Fantasia Festival ’24: Kryptic; The Beast Within; Vulcanizadora; Animalia Paradoxa.” Film Freak Central, 30 July. Festival review article with a dedicated section on Animalia Paradoxa.
Open entry2024 — Sawin, Chris. “Fantasia Film Festival 2024 ‘Animalia Paradoxa’ Review – Swim Against the Apocalypse.” Bounding Into Comics, 24 July. Review of the feature.
Open entry2024 — Vargas, Sofía. “Animalia Paradoxa | Crítica: un viaje visual e incierto.” Te Invito al Cine, 5 December. Review accompanying the Chilean theatrical release.
Open entry2024 — Wishloff, Thomas. “Fantasia 2024: Our Review of ‘Animalia Paradoxa’.” In The Seats, 22 July.
Open entry2024 — Brannan, Alex. “Review: Animalia Paradoxa — Fantasia Festival 2024.” CineFiles Movie Reviews, 21 July. Discusses the film alongside Diluvio’s experimental cinema.
Open entry2024 — Wassberg, Tim. “Fest Track on Sirk TV Film Review: Animalia Paradoxa.” SirkTV / The Inside Reel, 21 July. Fantasia International Film Festival review.
Open entry2024 — Gilliland, Scott. “Animalia Paradoxa – Fantasia Fest 2024.” Upcoming On Screen, 25 July.
Open entry2023 — Lattimer, James. “Tous les cinémas: FIDMarseille 2023.” Film Comment. Festival report including Vitanuova.
Open entry2023 — Rizov, Vadim. “At Least 18 Filmmakers Withdraw from IDFA 2023.” Filmmaker Magazine, 15 November. Reports and quotes Atallah’s Palestine-solidarity statement and decision not to pitch at IDFA Forum.
Open entry2021 — mysterycat23. “Invasion Narratives – Rey (2017) / Walker (1987).” Eclectic Ramblings, 7 May. Comparative essay on colonial narratives and cinematic form.
Open entry2020 — CinemaChile. “La vanguardia como lugar de resistencia: el cine de Niles Atallah” / “The Cinema of Niles Atallah.” Career essay drawing on a 2017 interview.
Open entry2020 — Lattanzi, Laura. “Conversatorio Colectivos Audiovisuales de la Revuelta.” laFuga 24. Includes Nayra Ilic García’s account of Atallah’s rotoscope-animation workshop and its influence within Ojo Chile.
Open entry2019 — Bluth, Johannes. “Historischer Experimentalfilm ‘Rey’: Die Körnung des Königlichen.” taz, 3 January. German-language review of Rey’s material and historical experimentation.
Open entry2019 — Corinth, Ernst. “‘Rey’: Der Mann, der König von Chile war.” RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND), 1 January. German-language release review.
Open entry2019 — Aguilar, Alonso. “Aesthethic Colonization: The Cultural Battle Within Latin America’s Arthouse Cinema.” Photogénie / Cinea, 6 December. Essay comparing Rey with Zama, Jauja and other Latin American films.
Open entry2018 — Romney, Jonathan. “Film of the Week: Rey.” Film Comment, 2 March.
Open entry2018 — Fernández, Ana. “Rey. El reino de Orélie Antoine de Tounens.” laFuga 21. Review of historical representation, colonialism and the film’s experimental form.
Open entry2018 — Estévez, Antonella. “La casa lobo: La perversión cuadro a cuadro.” Radio Universidad de Chile, 4 November. Film directed by León and Cociña; Atallah’s contribution was production and Image Post-Production.
Open entry2018 — De los Ríos Escobar, Valeria. “Cine chileno contemporáneo: Cartografía provisoria para un campo en expansión.” Revista Icónica, 17 December. Essay including Lucía and Rey; also published in English as “Contemporary Chilean Cinema: A Provisional Cartography of an Expanding Field” in Senses of Cinema. The two versions are one essay.
Open entry2018 — Morales Lastra, Enrique. “Rey: Narraciones extraordinarias.” Cine y Literatura, 4 February.
Open entry2018 — Estévez, Antonella. “Rey: El monarca alucinado.” Diario y Radio Universidad de Chile, 8 January; also republished by Cinechile.
Open entry2018 — Clarke, Cath. “Rey review – dreamlike drama about a man who would be king.” The Guardian, 5 January; print edition, p. 21. Online and newspaper versions of the same review.
Open entry2018 — Rovers, Ronald. “Rey: Van koningen, de dingen die voorbijgaan.” Filmkrant, 15 August. Dutch-language review; distinct from Guus Schulting’s interview.
Open entry2018 — Mosciatti, Ezio. “‘Rey’, o cómo llenar los ojos y oídos de cine.” BioBioChile, 5 January. Extended review of the film’s historical, visual, sonic and symbolic construction.
Open entry2018 — Rapold, Nicolas. “Rey.” Film Comment, March–April, Currents. Review comparing the film with Lucrecia Martel’s Zama.
Open entry2018 — Bittencourt, Ela. “From Prose of Life to Poetic Visions: Neighboring Scenes 2018.” Notebook / MUBI, 28 February. Includes Rey and its relationship to Zama and Latin American cinematic representations of colonialism.
Open entry2018 — Álvarez Ríos, Francisco. “Tríptico: ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” godart, 8 January. Three-part critical essay on the feature.
Open entry2018 — “Rey.” Filmes do Chico; republished in Blog de Filmes, 19 June. Portuguese-language review; the saved English translation is the same article.
Open entry2018 — Pobre Diletante. “Rey (Niles Atallah, 2017).” Pobre Diletante, 15 January. Review headed “Avant-garde para principiantes.”
Open entry2018 — Haddad, Naief. “Em espécie de alucinação, ‘Rei’ faz exercício experimental de beleza notável.” Folha de S.Paulo, Ilustrada, 21 June. Review accompanying the Brazilian release; Portuguese original and saved English translation are one text.
Open entry2018 — fílmicas. “Las mejores películas latinoamericanas de 2017.” 3 January. Year-end selection with a short review of Rey, ranked third.
Open entry2018 — Concannon, Philip. “Rey.” Phil on Film, 15 January. Review of the feature.
Open entry2018 — “Película ‘Rey’ se estrena hoy en Concepción.” El Sur, Espectáculos, 18 January, p. 23. Brief announcing the Universidad de Concepción screening.
Open entry2018 — Mosciatti, Ezio. “Récord de estrenos chilenos: ‘Rey’, ‘Salamandra’ y ‘Sapo’ debutaron hoy en salas.” BioBioChile, 11 January. Release overview with a dedicated discussion of Rey. Posted by Emilio Contreras.
Open entry2018 — Ochoa Mardones, Héctor. “Estrenan película sobre Orélie Antoine de Tounens, el Rey de La Araucanía.” El Austral de la Araucanía, Espectáculos, 10 January, p. 27. Report announcing the film’s Temuco release.
Open entry2018 — El Desconcierto. “Llega a salas alabada película chilena que se sumerge en la historia del Rey de La Araucanía.” 3 January. Release report on Rey.
Open entry2018 — Marín-Naritelli, Francisco. “Rey hay uno solo: Rey pájaro, Rey tierra, Rey agua.” Cine y Literatura, 11 January. Review of Rey.
Open entry2018 — Poblete, Joel. “Riesgos, aciertos y experimentaciones.” Publimetro Chile, 10 January. New-release column with a critical assessment of Rey and a reference to Lucía.
Open entry2018 — Grijalba Gomez, Jaime. “The 10 Best Chilean Films of 2017.” ScreenAnarchy, 8 January. Year-end selection ranking Rey second, with a short review.
Open entryc. 2018 — Looker, Matt. “Rey.” Total Film. Short review of the feature.
Open entry2018 — Hall, Lukas. “Theatrum Mundi: Colonial Farce and the Task of Indigenization in Niles Atallah’s Rey.” The Courtauldian, 31 January. Extended critical essay on the feature.
Open entry2018 — A. S. “Rey (2017).” Filmuforia, 3 January. Review discussing the film alongside Eraserhead, Aguirre and Zama.
Open entry2018 — Serjent, Colin. “Rey (12).” Nerve Magazine, 12 January. Review of the Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool, presentation.
Open entry2018 — McGill, Hannah. “Rey.” Sight & Sound, February, pp. 71–72. Review of the feature.
Open entry2018 — Oyarzún, Héctor. “Rey (1): Colonialismo sicodélico.” El Agente Cine, 18 January. Review of the feature.
Open entry2018 — Gonzalez Itier, Sebastian. “Rey (3): El juego de las máscaras.” El Agente Cine, 30 January. Review of the feature.
Open entry2018 — Munjin, Vanja. “Rey (2): Materialismos pretéritos.” El Agente Cine, 24 January. Release review reconsidering the film’s materiality and historical indeterminacy.
Open entry2017 — Azalbert, Nicolas. “Rey.” Cahiers du cinéma 738, November, p. 65. Cahier critique; full review preserved in the press archive.
Open entry2017 — Choury, Thomas. “L’Aventurier de l’archive perdue.” Critikat, 28 November. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Delgado, Mónica. “Olhar de Cinema 2017: Rey de Niles Atallah.” Desistfilm.
Open entry2017 — Piette, Jérémy. “Rey en terrain illuminé.” Libération, 28 November.
Open entry2017 — Aguilar, Alonso. “El reino de un lenguaje perdido.” Mediapart, 22 March. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Weissberg, Jay. “Rotterdam Film Review: ‘King’.” Variety, 6 February.
Open entry2017 — Herrera, Claudio. “Rey, de Niles Atallah.” Cinechile, 28 October. Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Delgado, Mónica. “Olhar de Cinema 2017: Sobre la retrospectiva de F. W. Murnau.” Desistfilm, 25 June. Festival essay documenting Atallah’s participation in a panel on Murnau’s influence on contemporary cinema.
Open entry2017 — Colantonio, Guillermo. “Festival de Rotterdam: Rey (2017), de Niles Atallah” / “Crítica: Rey (2017), de Niles Atallah.” CineramaPlus, 8 February; later version dated 14 November. One review under two successive headlines.
Open entry2017 — Castellano, Pablo. “Rey (Niles Atallah).” Cine maldito, 28 November.
Open entry2017 — The Clinic. “Llega a Chile la cinta ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” 19 December. Chilean theatrical-release report.
Open entryc. 2017 — Deruisseau, Bruno. Review of Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie. Les Inrockuptibles. French-release review indexed by AlloCiné; publication year inferred from the French release.
Open entryc. 2017 — Chèze, Thierry. Review of Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie. Studio Ciné Live. French-release review indexed by AlloCiné; publication year inferred from the French release.
Open entryc. 2017 — Schaller, Nicolas. Review of Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie. L’Obs. French-release review indexed by AlloCiné; publication year inferred from the French release.
Open entry2017 — Garay, Rodrigo. “Rey de Niles Atallah: Los renglones torcidos de la Araucanía.” F.I.L.M.E., 26 June. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Mena, César. “CRFIC-2017. Rey.” Krinegrafo, 10 December. Costa Rica festival review.
Open entry2017 — Moseguí, Carlota. “Rotterdam 2017: Premios y críticas de la Competencia.” Otros Cines, 3 February. Competition report and review of Rey. The Rey discussion was republished as “La fantasía mitológica de Nilles Atallah conquista Rotterdam,” Otros Cines Europa, 4 February.
Open entry2017 — Negrete, JJ. “FICUNAM | ‘Rey’: Rayones en la historia.” Butaca Ancha, 24 February. Review of Rey, with discussion of Lucía.
Open entry2017 — Koza, Roger. “FICUNAM 2017 (02): Rey.” Con los ojos abiertos, 3 February. Review on historical representation, political dispossession and the film’s visual form.
Open entry2017 — “Crítica de la película chilena Rey del director Niles Atallah.” Cinestel, 9 February. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Oggiano, Roberto. “Rey: The lost kingdom.” Cineuropa, 3 February. Rotterdam review; English translation from Italian.
Open entryc. 2017 — Bardot, Nicolas. “Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie.” FilmDeCulte. French-release review.
Open entry2017 — Rodríguez, Carlos. “Rey.” Revista Icónica, 29 June. Review of the film’s treatment of history and memory.
Open entryc. 2017 — Silva Martínez, Marco A. “Rey de La Nueva Francia en Sudamérica.” Xpresat: Tu Revista Digital. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — “Pueblo Mapuche en el Cine: Dos películas ganan premios en festival en Francia.” Radio del Mar, 28 March. Toulouse awards report including Rey and Mala junta.
Open entry2017 — Aouad, Amanda. “Rey.” CinePipocaCult, 16 June. Review from Olhar de Cinema.
Open entry2017 — F. L. “Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie.” Chacun Cherche Son Film, 27 November. French-release review.
Open entry2017 — Grijalba, Jaime. “Olhar de Cinema Film Festival 2017: Rey, Soldado, Tonsler Park, All the Cities of the North, A Quiet Dream, & More.” Slant Magazine, 28 June. Festival report with a substantial review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Maestro, Miguel. “Rey (Niles Atallah, 2017).” Nos hacemos un cine, 8 February. Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Martínez, Mariana. “Otras historias son posibles.” Miradas Múltiples, 20 June. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — York, Keva. “Going Underground: Celluloid in the Digital Age.” MIFF Blog, Melbourne International Film Festival, 12 August. Comparative essay on Rey and Bill Morrison’s Dawson City: Frozen Time.
Open entryc. 2017 — Watson, Grant. “Rey (MIFF).” FilmInk. Review from the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Open entry2017 — Crítico Revius. “Rey (2017).” REVIUS, 18 October. Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Garcia, Fernand. “Rey, l’histoire du Français qui voulait devenir Roi de Patagonie – Niles Atallah.” KinoScript, 11 December. Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Russo, Juan Pablo. “Un rey para la Patagonia.” EscribiendoCine, 15 November. Review of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Evans, James B. “Rey.” Electric Sheep, 22 March. Rotterdam review.
Open entry2017 — Koger Roza. “La columna de Koger Roza: El hielo y el infierno.” Con los ojos abiertos, 7 November. Comparative essay discussing Rey alongside films by Bill Morrison, João Moreira Salles and Ignacio Agüero.
Open entry2017 — Guilhem, Rafael. “La historia física de las imágenes: Rey (2017) de Niles Atallah.” Correspondencias: cine y pensamiento, no. 0, Invierno 2017, “Políticas del cine.” Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Galván, Luis Fernando. “Rey.” EnFilme, 13 June. Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Fireman, Chico. “Olhar de Cinema 2017.” Abraccine — Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema, 28 June. Festival essay including Rey.
Open entry2017 — Aguilar, Alonso, and César Mena. “Filmes destacados del 2017.” Krinegrafo, 31 December. Year-end critical selections including Rey.
Open entryc. 2017 — “Rey: La apuesta experimental de Niles Atallah tiene fecha de estreno.” Zoomback. Chilean theatrical-release announcement.
Open entry2017 — López, María Graciela. “Estrenan película sobre Orllie-Antoine de Tounens, el desconocido ‘Rey de la Araucanía’.” BioBioChile, 25 December. Chilean-release report.
Open entry2017 — El Mostrador Cultura+Ciudad. “Película chilena se sumerge en la historia del Rey de La Araucanía.” El Mostrador, 13 December. Release report and trailer presentation.
Open entry2017 — El Otro Cine. “‘Rey’ (2017) de Niles Atallah, cinta chilena sobre la historia del Rey de La Araucanía llega a los cines.” 12 December. Release report and official-trailer presentation.
Open entry2017 — “The Forgotten Kingdom of Rey – Rey (Film Review).” Close-Up Culture, 29 December. Review of the feature.
Open entry2017 — Águila, Marisol. “Informe I FECIRA: La(s) familia(s) y sus vínculos disparejos.” El Agente Cine, 7 November. Festival report mentioning Rey in FECIRA’s programme.
Open entry2017 — Munjin, Vanja. “Informe VII FICUNAM (1): Fragilidades expuestas. Lo histórico, lo marginal y lo poético como lugares de experimentación cinematográfica.” El Agente Cine, 13 March. Festival report with an extended discussion of Rey.
Open entry2017 — Oyarzún, Héctor. “Informe XXIV FicValdivia (2): De historia, política, amor y cinefilia.” El Agente Cine, 24 October. Festival essay comparing the historical representation in Rey and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama.
Open entry2017 — Gutiérrez, José Hernán. “Informe XXIV FicValdivia (3): De tierras robadas y viejos maestros.” El Agente Cine, 27 October. Festival essay discussing Rey’s colonial history and material experimentation.
Open entryc. 2017 — Bardot, Nicolas. “Les 15 films de novembre.” FilmDeCulte. Monthly release round-up including Rey.
Open entry2017 — Di Salvatore, Giuseppe. “Rey.” Filmexplorer, 10 November. Italian-language review, published during GIFF and FILMAR en América Latina in Geneva.
Open entryc. 2016 — Baus, Martín. “Lucía.” Campo Contra Campo: Ficción y política en el cine chileno. Review of the feature’s domestic space, urban transformation, image fragmentation and political memory.
Open entry2015 — Sattler Jiménez, Nancy. “Creación musical chilena.” Revista Musical Chilena 69(223). DOI: 10.4067/S0716-27902015000100018. Performance chronicle documenting Atallah’s animation contribution to Anticantata.
Open entry2015 — “Entrevista a Vania Barraza.” Revista Planeo, 13 January. Interview with the film scholar, including sustained discussion of Lucía, gender, urban redevelopment and historical memory; not an interview with Atallah.
Open entry2015 — “Museo Histórico Maurice Van de Maele fue locación de la nueva película de Niles Atallah.” Dirección Museológica, Universidad Austral de Chile, October. Production report on the recording of Rey’s music with Sebastián Jatz Rawicz.
Open entry2015 — Navarrete Alvear, Daniel. “En Valdivia graban música para la película ‘Rey’ de Niles Atallah.” El Austral de Los Ríos, Espectáculos, 26 October, p. 26. Report on the soundtrack’s recording with Sebastián Jatz Rawicz.
Open entry2013 — Pinto, Iván. Curatorial text on Diluvio, in “Visiones Laterales #3: Diluvio (Atallah, León y Cociña) + Juan Pablo Langlois.” laFuga / Cineteca Nacional de Chile.
Open entry2013 — Herrera, Cinthia, and Nicole Trejo. “Cine, Ciudad y Memoria: Entrevista a Christian Ramírez.” 35 Milímetros, 8 May. Interview with the critic, including an extended discussion of Lucía’s domestic space and the representation of Santiago. Drawn from a 2012 Universidad de Chile research project.
Open entry2013 — Acosta, Cesar. “Niles Atallah participa en Festival de Cannes con proyecto sobre ‘Rey de la Araucanía’.” BioBioChile, 24 May. Development report with Atallah’s comments on Rey during Cannes L’Atelier.
Open entry2013 — Aguilera R., Carlos. “Película chilena ‘Rey’ fue seleccionada para el Atelier de Cannes 2013.” El Mercurio, Espectáculos, 5 March, p. C15. Project-development report with Atallah’s comments.
Open entry2011 — Bernal, Fernando. “Lucía.” Cahiers du cinéma España, no. 49, October; Festival Simultáneo de Cine 4+1 dossier.
Open entry2011 — Estévez, Antonella. “Lucía, de Niles Atallah.” Cinechile, 5 August.
Open entry2011 — Batlle, Diego. “Guía y reseñas de un festival inusual.” Otros Cines, October. Festival 4+1 report including a short signed review of Lucía.
Open entry2011 — Reyes León, Daniel. Essay on Lucía, Luis y el lobo. Reproduced in Fundación PROA’s Art in the Auditorium III online exhibition publication. Analysis of the Galería Animal installation, its spatial construction, stop motion and sound.
Open entry2011 — Olivares, Juan José. “El foro de la Cineteca, ‘ventana al cine alternativo de calidad’.” La Jornada, 12 April, p. 9. Report on Lucía opening the 31st Foro and the Lucía y el bosque de cristal installation.
Open entryc. 2011 — El País (Montevideo, Uruguay). “Otra visión de América fue premiada en Francia.” Espectáculos, c. March. Toulouse awards coverage; saved-page masthead dated 29 March.
Open entry2011 — Filmkrant. “Chileense wederopstanding,” in “Evenementen (Focus) – 30 juni 2011.” 30 June. Programme report documenting Lucía in EYE’s Cinema Chile season.
Open entry2010 — Blanco, Felipe. “Lucía.” laFuga 11. Review of the feature’s visual construction, domestic space and relationship to memory.
Open entry2010 — Adams, Mark. “Lucia.” Screen Daily, 22 September 2010. Review of the feature.
Open entry2010 — Deia. “Quince películas de 17 países participarán en la sección Zabaltegi del Zinemaldia.” 10 August 2010, pp. 50–51. Festival-selection report and film profiles.
Open entry2010 — EFE. “Quince filmes de 17 países competirán en Zabaltegi–Nuevos Directores.” Diario de Noticias, 10 August 2010, p. 55. Festival-selection report.
Open entry2010 — EFE. “Dos óperas primas españolas en Zabaltegi–Nuevos Directores.” Noticias de Álava, 10 August 2010, p. 54. Festival-selection report including Lucía.
Open entry2010 — Noticias de Gipuzkoa. “Quince películas de 17 países optan al premio Nuevos Directores del Zinemaldia.” 10 August 2010, p. 50. Festival-selection coverage including Lucía.
Open entry2010 — Guerrero, Carolina G. “Arranca el Festival de San Sebastián con seis películas iberoamericanas a concurso.” NOTICINE.com, 16 September 2010. Festival preview including Lucía.
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