Author Danshi Antinoph

Danshi Antinoph

Danshi Antinoph is a second-year MFA Cinematic Arts student at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Her filmmaking explores the intersection between low-budget, DIY essay cinema and Natal Ethics (e.g., David Benatar and Sarah Hannan), and relates those styles, practices, and methodologies to overarching themes about Asian-American transracial adoption, and how to reconcile with an incongruous existence.

Wings of Desire

Danshi Antinoph

March 2026

CTEQ Annotations on Film

German auteur Wim Wenders’ dream-of-Berlin film, Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), poses a question of existence: “Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there?” This line from P...