Anouk De Clercq explores the potential of audiovisual language to create possible worlds. Her work has been shown in the Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, BOZAR, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlinale, and Ars Electronica, among others. De Clercq is a visiting professor at the School of Arts University College Ghent, founding member of Auguste Orts, and initiator of Monokino. De Clercq is the author of Where is Cinema, published by Archive Books. Her recent work is based on the utopian idea of ‘radical empathy’.
Anouk De Clercq
Anouk De Clercq 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 Anouk De Clercq’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Radicals | Len Lye | New Zealand, USA | 1958 | 5’ | ||
| A Portrait of Ga | Margaret Tait | United Kingdom | 1952 | 4’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Betty Tells Her Story | Liane Brandon | USA | 1972 | 20’ | ||
| Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe | Les Blank | USA | 1980 | 21’ | ||
| Audience | Barbara Hammer | USA | 1982 | 32’ | ||
| The Green Ray | Tacita Dean | United Kingdom | 2001 | 3’ | ||
| My Contribution Mi Aporte | Sara Gomez | Cuba | 1969 | 34’ | ||
| Downside Up | Tony Hill | United Kingdom | 1984 | 18’ | ||
| The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms 薄墨の桜 | Sumiko Haneda | Japan | 1977 | 42’ | ||