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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’ | ||