Daniel Kulle is director, author and scholar with a focus in art house and queer cinema. He holds a PhD in cinema studies and lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.

His experimental short films, NoFace (2015), Under Your Skin (2016) or The Taming (2017) have been presented on international film festivals. His first feature length film, the essay film The Colonial Institute about the complex entanglement between science and colonialism premiered in 2019 on the Filmfest Hamburg. In 2022 the MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein supported the development of his feature film script Moorland.

Apart from his work as a filmmaker and author, he teaches screenwriting, film production and media theory as a senior lecturer at the University of Hamburg. In his texts he deals with question of character development, queer cinema, visual tactility as well as the developments of film aesthetics in the digital and post-digital age.