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Bart Versteirt
Bart Versteirt 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 Bart Versteirt’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | France | 1895 | 1’ | ||
| Le Voyage dans la Lune | Georges Méliès | France | 1902 | 15’ | ||
| A Corner in Wheat | D.W. Griffith | USA | 1909 | 14’ | ||
| One Week | Buster Keaton , Edward F. Cline | USA | 1920 | 24’ | ||
| Steamboat Willie | Walt Disney | USA | 1928 | 8’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Free Radicals | Len Lye | New Zealand, USA | 1958 | 5’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| Lucifer Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1972 | 29’ | ||