Production
2025

Animated short, 21 minutes.
Written and directed by Niles Atallah.
Production: Pista B Producciones, Diluvio and Fósfora.

A twisted utopia unfolds as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Created by what might be a sentient machine or an unknown form of intelligence—consciousness manifesting itself in new and exuberant forms—it reveals its own strange version of paradise.

World premiere in the Orizzonti International Short Film Competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

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Co-production
2025

Short film.
Directed by Francisco Visceral Rivera.
Produced by Lucas Engel and Ignacio Socías.
Co-producer: Niles Atallah.
Production: Pista B, Dantesco and Fósfora.

In development and post-production
2025–, in post-production

Short film.
Written and directed by Niles Atallah and Felipe Elgueta.
Producer: Lucas Engel.
Production: Pista B. Co-production: Fósfora.
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, FONDART, 2025.

In development and post-production
2026–, in development

Short-film project.
Written and directed by Niles Atallah and Felipe Elgueta.
Producer: Lucas Engel.
Production: Pista B. Co-production: Fósfora.
Research: Pedro Bahamondes Chaud.

In development and post-production
2025–, in development

Stop-motion animated feature.
Written and directed by Niles Atallah.
Producer: Catalina Vergara.
Production: Globo Rojo Films. Co-production: Fósfora.
Fortalecimiento, Government of Chile, 2025.

In development and post-production
2018–, in development

Fiction feature project.
Directed by Niles Atallah. Written by Niles Atallah and Alejandra Moffat.
Producer: Catalina Vergara Arthur.
Production: Globo Rojo Films. Co-production: Fósfora; earlier development with Diluvio.
Europe–Latin America Co-Production Forum, San Sebastián, 2022: Film Center Serbia Award.

Image post-production and color
2026

Documentary feature directed by Rafael Guendelman.
Image post-production and color: Niles Atallah and Roger Brheman / Fósfora.
Production: Brisa Films / Al Jazeera.

World premiere at FIDMarseille, First Film Competition; Special Mention of the Jury of the 2nd Chance School.

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Image post-production and color
2025

Documentary short directed by José Jiménez. Chile, 25 minutes, 16 mm, black and white.
Image post-production and color: Niles Atallah and Roger Brheman / Fósfora.
Production: Nuevos Trópicos and Volátil Cine.

FIDMarseille 2025: Special Mention of the Flash Competition jury. IDFA 2025: Best of Fests. FIDOCS 2025: Fidocs Expanded. Documenta Madrid 2026: International Competition.

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Image post-production and color
2025

Animated short.
Image post-production and color: Niles Atallah.

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Film laboratory
2023–2026

Research by Espora Taller and Fósfora.

A three-year investigation into the wet-plate collodion process: recovering a 1960s copying camera, 3D-printed plate holders and collodion prepared from raw materials.

Aqua Vitae is a series of wet-plate collodion portraits made in this laboratory. It is a collaborative work created by Niles Atallah, Espora Taller and Fósfora. It was exhibited at Casa Fósfora and at Tagua Tagua Galleries ↗. See the prints at nilesatallah.cl ↗

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Exhibitions
2026

Casa Fósfora, Bellavista, Santiago, Chile.
With Espora Taller.

Wet-plate collodion photographic exhibition.

Aqua Vitae was also exhibited at Tagua Tagua Galleries ↗.

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Exhibitions
2026

Casa Fósfora, Bellavista, Santiago, Chile.
June 2026.

Installation with 16 mm film projection and animation.

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Workshops and encounters
2026

Casa Fósfora, Bellavista, Santiago, Chile.

Screening of Homenaje a la obra de P. H. Gosse (2020), Luto (2021) and Spot Fuera de Campo (2025), and a conversation with the filmmaker, attended by students from Universidad Diego Portales.

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