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Short. A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
- Meshes of the Afternoon. Alexander Hammid had worked on a few films by the time his then-wife Maya Deren had come up with her first cinematic project: Meshes of the Afternoon.
- Night and Fog. One of the most daring achievements in cinematic history is Alain Resnais’ journey back to Auschwitz only ten years after the Holocaust ended.
- Scorpio Rising. To this day, Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising is as influential as it is polarizing. His jarring juxtapositions between images of torture, Naziism, and the occult and mainstream pop music has been copied by filmmakers of all sorts, ranging from Scorsese and Tarantino to Noé and Korine.
- La Jetée. Chris Marker is a world renowned film essayist, whose documentaries and think pieces are untouchable. However, he was also a photographer and writer first, and that plays into the greatest narrative he ever created.
Feb 19, 2020 · T he best short films have a few key things in common: concise storytelling, great performances, an original concept, and stunning visuals. You can learn from each, but which are the best to watch? Right now, we’ll give you our list of the best short films of all time.
- Short Film #1 — Backstory. Making this list, I concluded that I'm a romantic man and a big sucker for high-concept short films about life and love that are brilliant in their simplicity.
- Short Film #2 — The Encounter. Instead of living and experiencing things, many people in today’s world have become obsessed with creating artificial moments that can be shared on social media.
- Short Film #3 — Catastrophe. I’m a big fan of everything that Dutch director Jamille van Wijngaarden directs! Her super funny and high-energy productions are always top-notch entertainment, and this hilarious two-minute animated short film directed by Jamille called ‘Catastrophe’ is no exception!
- Short Film #4 — Less Than One. The next short story is another excellent example of brilliance in its purest and most simple form—a short film about finding ‘The One.’
- Written and Directed by Georges Méliès
- Written by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, and Directed by Buñuel
- Written by H.M. Walker and Directed by James Parrott
- Written and Directed by Jean Vigo
- Written and Directed by Jean Renoir
- Written and Directed by Chris Marker
- Written by Samuel Beckett and Directed by Alan Schneider
- Written and Directed by George Lucas
- Written by Nick Park, Bob Baker, and Brian Sibley, and Directed by Park
Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) is the first truly great short film and arguably the short film that has had the greatest influence on the history of cinema. 21st-century viewers still recognize its most iconic image: a rocket-ship landing in the eye of the Man on the Moon. Indeed, that remains probably the single most iconic image in a...
The greatest and most famous surrealist film, Un Chien Andalou, is a short film, but in just over 20 minutes Luis Buñuel and his equally revolutionary co-writer, Salvador Dalí, included enough extraordinary imagery to make it a miniature epic. Of course, one image above all resonates, that of the “eye-slicing”, as Buñuel cuts first to a passing clo...
Sisyphus had it easy: he only had to roll a rock to the top of a hill and then watch it roll back down again, before starting all over ad infinitum. But Laurel and Hardy had to transport the titular music box (a self-playing piano) up a winding and apparently unending set of stairs while also contending with each other’s unique brand of idiocy. The...
21st-century filmmakers, for whom a short film is usually considered to be one less than 30 minutes long, might balk at the inclusion of several longer films on this list, on the basis that they are not really “short films” at all. And yet throughout the 20th century, a short film (or featurette, as they were sometimes called) was any film lasting ...
Only two short films (again, using the measure of films that are less than 45 minutes long) made it onto the most recent (2021) Sight and Sound survey of “The 100 Greatest Films of All Time” and one of them is Partie de Campagne (A Day In The Country). It is not Renoir’s greatest film — that would be either La grande illusion (Grand Illusion) (1937...
The only other short film to make it onto the Sight and Sound list, and at a much higher number than Partie de Campagne (at joint 50th as opposed to joint 90th), is La Jetée. And yet it is arguably not a movie at all, as it is largely comprised of still images, with only minimal movement of those images. Nevertheless, La Jetée is a masterpiece of c...
Samuel Beckett was probably the greatest playwright of the 20th century, with his finest work, Waiting For Godot (1953), proving to be the great post-nuclear play, as two tramps waited for the titular Godot just as humanity now awaited its own apparently inevitable destruction by atomic war. However, Beckett wrote only one screenplay, Film, which s...
Most students of Star Wars and its creator believe that George Lucas’ cinematic journey all began with his 1971 dystopian sci-fi feature THX 1138. In fact, the story goes back even further, because THX 1138 was itself an expansion of the student film that Lucas had made four years earlier while at the University of Southern California’s film school...
The best short filmmaker of the late 20th century is Nick Park, creator of Wallace and Gromit, who are the finest comic and cinematic double-act since Laurel and Hardy, even if only one of them (the dimmer one, naturally) is human. Almost any of Park’s early masterpieces, beginning with A Grand Day Out (1989), which was a superb updating of Le Voya...
I compiled this list from many different polls, lists, and awards, using a weighted point system to rank the shorts (the most acclaimed shorts are on the top). I'm defining short as any film with a runtime of 45 minutes or less.
The Top 100 Short Films of All Time. Rank This Chart. Best | Worst. Detailed | List | Gallery. per page. 1 2 3 4 5 Next . Night and Fog. 1956, 32 min. Alain Resnais • Starring: Michel Bouquet , Reinhard Heydrich , Heinrich Himmler. Documentary • Essay Film • Foreign Language Film. 1. find this movie on . Buy or Rent on iTunes. Find on Netflix. 2.
