Merrimundi
Chile2025animated21'Short film competition
Animated anomalies, psychedelic cherubs and Latin chants in the mechanical world of unbridled imagination. Niles Atallah takes the viewers to a macabre repository of broken toys, which would certainly have appealed to Jan Švankmajer, the Quay Brothers, Hans Bellmer or Alfred Kubin. The world created by the animator is dominated by chaos, noise and macabre imagery, amplified by digital glitches and the multiplication of eerie singing heads. It is a psychedelic tribute to discarded matter, brought to life by unbridled creative imagination and limitless digital possibilities.
- directed by
- Niles Atallah
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A Chilean-American filmmaker and visual artist of Palestinian descent, based in Santiago, Chile. His films include Animalia Paradoxa (2024), Rey (2017), and Lucía (2010), as well as shorts Vitanuova (2023), Subterranean Light (2021), and Lucía y Luis (2007–08), the latter co-directed with Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León, with whom he co-founded production company Diluvio. His new creative studio, Fósfora, is dedicated to experimental film and XR works. Merrimundi (2025) is its first production, in coproduction with Pista B.
- script
- Niles Atallah
- animated by
- Matías López, José Tomás Urrutia, Coni Maldonado, Sofía Alvarado, Paco Pasquette, Javiera Román, Aurora Molina, Niles Atallah, Rai Bucher, Micaela Moreno, Diego Seye
- music
- Paco Pasquette
- editing
- Niles Atallah
- production
- Lucas Engel (Pista B)
- Photo
- Trailer