Antoni Orlof is a filmmaker based in Warsaw, Poland. His artistic practice explores the poetic and narrative possibilities of images, as well as editing structures, and their ability to create meaning. Driven by a fascination with light, time, memory, and symbols, his work explores themes of memory, transience, and personal experience.
Antoni Orlof
Antoni Orlof 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 Antoni Orlof’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listening to the Space in My Room | Robert Beavers | USA, Switzerland, Germany | 2013 | 19’ | ||
| Sorrows | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Switzerland | 1969 | 6’ | ||
| Starlings Stare | Karl Kels | Germany | 1991 | 6’ | ||
| The Visitation | Nathaniel Dorsey | USA | 2002 | 18’ | ||
| Falten | Hannes Schüpbach | Switzerland | 2005 | 28’ | ||
| Cooperation of Parts | Daniel Eisenberg | USA | 1987 | 39’ | ||
| Talking Heads Gadające głowy | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland | 1980 | 15’ | ||
| Time and Tide | Peter Hutton | USA | 2000 | 35’ | ||
| Earth Message | Arthur Cantrill, Corinne Cantrill | Australia | 1970 | 23’ | ||
| The Great Art of Knowing | David Gatten | USA | 2004 | 37’ | ||