Bram Ruiter is a filmmaker from the Netherlands, mostly preoccupied with the creative process.
Bram Ruiter
Bram Ruiter 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 Bram Ruiter’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| A Letter to Uncle Boonmee จดหมายถึงลุงบุญมี | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 2009 | 17’ | ||
Contains everything I need and want. |
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| Comingled Containers | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1996 | 2’ | ||
This one opened the flood gates. |
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| Palms | Mary Helena Clark | USA | 2015 | 9’ | ||
Abstraction through figuration. |
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| Je vous salue, Sarajevo Hail, Sarajevo | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1993 | 2’ | ||
Heartbreaking. Truly and utterly heartbreaking. |
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| In Order Not To Be Here | Deborah Stratman | USA | 2002 | 33’ | ||
The greatest achievement in horror. |
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| Still Raining, Still Dreaming | Phil Solomon | USA | 2009 | 12’ | ||
This one did so much for me, but that can be said for all of Phil's films, really. |
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| Pine Barrens | Nancy Holt | USA | 1975 | 32’ | ||
Today, I felt like this one. Tomorrow, I might put Benning or Lertxundi here. |
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| Worlds | Isaac Goes | Canada | 2021 | 19’ | ||
Criminally underseen and an undeniable masterpiece. |
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| Valentin de las Sierras | Bruce Baillie | Mexico | 1968 | 10’ | ||
Saw this again a few weeks ago on 16mm and fell in love with it all over again. |
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| Witch’s Cradle | Maya Deren | USA | 1944 | 12’ | ||
Not her greatest achievement per se, but her most honest and open one. |
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