Blanca Garcia

Blanca Garcia 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 Blanca Garcia’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo Margaret Tait United Kingdom 1955 6’
Glimpse of the Garden Glimpse of the Garden Marie Menken USA 1957 5’
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
Fuses Carolee Schneemann USA 1967 29’
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice Hollis Frampton USA 1972 31’
Roslyn Romance Bruce Baillie USA 1947 17’
Light Reading Lis Rhodes United Kingdom 1978 20’
Measures of Distance Mona Hatoum Canada, United Kingdom 1988 15’
Black Skin Schwarze Sünde Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet Germany 1989 42’
What Places of HeavenWhat Planets Directed, How Long the Effects? or, the General Accidents of the World David Gatten USA 2013 29’