Andréa Picard is the Senior Film Curator at the Toronto International Film Festival and TIFF Cinematheque.
Andréa Picard
Andréa Picard 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 Andréa Picard’s submission:
Impossible excercise!
— Andréa Picard| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solidarity | Joyce Wieland | Canada | 1973 | 11’ | ||
| Nicht löschbares Feuer The Inextinguishable Fire | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1969 | 22’ | ||
| Come Out | Narcisa Hirsch | Argentina | 1971 | 10’ | ||
| Les Mains négatives | Marguerite Duras | France | 1978 | 14’ | ||
| Atlantiques | Mati Diop | France, Senegal | 2009 | 16’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death | Arthur Jafa | USA | 2017 | 8’ | ||
| Skagarfjördur | Peter Hutton | Iceland, USA | 2004 | 33’ | ||
| UFOs | Lillian Schwartz | USA | 1974 | 3’ | ||
| Black and White Tyrpps No. 3 | Ben Russell | USA | 2007 | 12’ | ||