Alyssandra Maxine

Alyssandra Maxine is a film writer based in Manila. She is the managing editor of MARG1N.

Alyssandra Maxine 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 Alyssandra Maxine’s submission:

Woe be to the 61-63 minute films...

— Alyssandra Maxine
Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
For One More Hour with You Un'ora sola ti vorrei Alina Marazzi Italy 2002 55’
Man with Mirror Guy Sherwin United Kingdom 1976 10’
L’homme atlantique Marguerite Duras France 1981 38’
Refused Απεταξάμην Frieda Liappa Greece 1980 25’
Regen Rain Joris Ivens , Manus Franken The Netherlands 1929 16’
One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train Cien niños esperando un tren Ignacio Agüero Chile, United Kingdom 1988 57’
Unfinished Diary Journal inachevé Marilú Mallet Chile, Canada 1982 48’
My Eye Is Reflecting Det speglar i mitt öga Nina Hedenius Sweden 1992 58’
The Woolworths Choir of 1979 Elizabeth Price USA 2012 18’
Saving the Proof Karen Holmes USA 1979 11’