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Fósfora

Fósfora is a production company and creative studio founded by Niles Atallah in Santiago, Chile. It brings together a film laboratory, an image post-production suite, an animation studio, workshops and an exhibition space.

Merrimundi (2025) was Fósfora's first production. Casa Fósfora, its physical space, opened in 2026 in the Bellavista neighbourhood.

Laboratory

A collaboration between Fósfora and Espora Taller.

Celluloid development in Super 8 and 16 mm.
Still photography in 35 mm.
Wet-plate collodion photography, on glass and aluminium (tintypes).

Post-production

Image post-production and color grading suite.

Casa Fósfora

Fósfora's physical space in the Bellavista neighbourhood of Santiago, Chile. It opened in 2026 with a laboratory, an animation studio, workshops and an exhibition space.

Press

El Ciudadano, 2026
Mediales, 2026

Contact

admin@fosfora.cl
Instagram @fosfo.ra

© 2026 Fósfora · Santiago de Chile

Film — Index
MerrimundiMerrimundi

El Tamagochi Escarlata
Nour
Villa Stellarum
Janna
La muñeca de fuego / The Fire Doll
Az Zeeb
Lengua muerta / Dead Tongue

Production

Merrimundi — film still
1. Merrimundi

Merrimundi — 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

2. El Tamagochi Escarlata

El Tamagochi Escarlata — 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

3. Nour

Nour — 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.

4. Villa Stellarum

Villa Stellarum — 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.

5. Janna

Janna — 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.

6. La muñeca de fuego / The Fire Doll

La muñeca de fuego / The Fire Doll — 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

7. Az Zeeb

Az Zeeb — 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.

8. Lengua muerta / Dead Tongue

Lengua muerta / Dead Tongue — 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.

Collodion(Close)

2023–2026

A record of the three-year investigation behind Aqua Vitae, a collaboration between Espora Taller and Fósfora carried out by Norkys Saraí, Martin Velasco, Coni Maldonado Dávila, José Tomás Urrutia Goldsack, Hans von Marees Peede and Niles Atallah between 2023 and 2026.

We began with a discarded photographic copying camera from the 1960s. Recovering it, cleaning it and rebuilding it became part of learning to make photographs from scratch. We used 3D printing to create the plate holders and, through trial and error, prepared our own collodion from raw materials.

The investigation produced more than 50 wet plates. The glass and metal images were embedded in large adobe bricks, each more than a century old. The photographs here trace the work on the camera, the chemical tests and the adobe supports.

See the Aqua Vitae prints

Images

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