Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker based in Southern California. He is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film. His films have screened at the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), BFI London Film Festival, MoMA Doc Fortnight, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and various other festivals and programmes.
Adam Piron
Adam Piron participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Adam Piron’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia | Hollis Frampton | USA | 1971 | 36’ | ||
| Elephant | Alan Clarke | United Kingdom | 1989 | 37’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
| Jáaji Approx. | Sky Hopinka | USA | 2015 | 8’ | ||
| Very Specific Things at Night | John Torres | Philippines | 2009 | 5’ | ||
| LA Plays Itself | Fred Halsted | USA | 1972 | 55’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat | Louis Lumière , Auguste Lumière | France | 1896 | 1’ | ||