Alejo Franzetti is a filmmaker and programmer, born in Buenos Aires. He has made films of different lengths and genres, such as the short film El contrabajo, the medium-length Panke, and the feature film La destrucción del orden vigente. Franzetti has been a member of the selection committee of Berlinale Shorts since 2017 and of Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg since 2019. He was also co-founder and programmer of INVASION, the Argentine Film Festival in Berlin.
Alejo Franzetti
Alejo Franzetti 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 Alejo Franzetti’s submission:
Being aware of the tricks of memory, I tried anyway to focus on films that were either a revelation or a source of inspiration for me, and which I believe are also representative (pioneers) of the possibilities and potential of the short form.
— Alejo Franzetti| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | France | 1895 | 1’ | ||
Cinema was born short. |
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| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
A narrative film. |
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| The Wonder Ring | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1955 | 6’ | ||
The light. |
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| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
A door that opens both ways. |
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| Love Game Liebesspiel | Oskar Fischinger | Germany | 1931 | 3’ | ||
Music. |
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| A Portrait of Ga | Margaret Tait | United Kingdom | 1952 | 5’ | ||
The right distance. (Not) simple, so beautiful. |
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| Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège Zero for Conduct | Jean Vigo | France | 1933 | 41’ | ||
Laughing & rebelling. |
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| Ofrenda | Claudio Caldini | Argentina | 1978 | 2’ | ||
To be thankful. |
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| So is This | Michael Snow | Canada | 1982 | 48’ | ||
| Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik Workers Leaving the Factory | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1995 | 36’ | ||
100 years. |
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