Blake Williams

Blake Williams 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 Blake Williams’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
The Woolworths Choir of 1979 Elizabeth Price USA 2012 18’
The Three Disasters Les trois désastres Jean-Luc Godard France 2013 17’
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 3D L'Arrivée d'un Train en gare de La Ciotat 3D Louis Lumière France 1935 1’
Spacy Takashi Ito Japan 1981 10’
Speechless Scott Stark USA 2008 13’
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia Hollis Frampton USA 1971 36’
Blight John Smith United Kingdom 1996 15’
Glider Ernie Gehr USA 2001 20’
Time Tunnel Takahiko Iimura Japan, USA 1971 5’
Free Radicals Len Lye New Zealand, USA 1958 5’