Ana Bilankov is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Berlin and Zagreb, working in experimental film, photography, and video installation. She studied Art History and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Zagreb and Mainz and completed postgraduate studies in “Art in Context“ at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She has shown her work in many exhibitions, won numerous international scholarships, and participated in film and video festivals like the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, 25 FPS Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Beijing Short Film Festival, and Shorts Egypt, where she has won several awards.
Ana Bilankov
Ana Bilankov 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 Ana Bilankov’s submission:
Thanks for this great initiative! I am very curious to see the results :)
— Ana Bilankov| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| Saute ma ville Blow Up My Town | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1968 | 13’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Ulysse | Agnès Varda | France | 1983 | 22’ | ||
| Don Quihote | Vlado Kristl | Yugoslavia | 1961 | 10’ | ||
| Black Film Crni film | Želimir Žilnik | Yugoslavia | 1971 | 17’ | ||
| The Greeting | Bill Viola | USA | 1995 | 10’ | ||
| Ever is Over All | Pipilotti Rist | Switzerland, USA | 1997 | 4’ | ||
| Man Number 4 | Miranda Penell | United Kingdom | 2024 | 10’ | ||
| Mast-del مست دل | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom | 2023 | 17’ | ||