Author Dalia Neis

Dalia Neis

Dalia Neis is a writer, filmmaker, and sound artist living in Berlin and Salford. She has recently completed her PhD on cinematic representations of wind and the essay form. Apart from making experimental film-essays, she is also part of the expanded cinema, experimental musical/poetry group, FITH, and co-founder of Wanda-Portal, an imprint that releases albums and radio shows, which traverse the cinematic, literary, and sonic spheres.

Stalking the Invisible: On Cinematic Winds in the films of Joris Ivens and Jean-Marie Straub/Danièlle Huillet

Dalia Neis

October 2019

Communist Utopians: The Films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

We are mad to be filming the wind. It’s like filming the impossible. We are mad to be filming the wind; filming the impossible is what’s best in life. All of my life I have tried. I have tried to capture, to ta...