Carlos Velandia is a Colombian artist with a background in film programming and new media, whose work focuses on anti-hegemonic representation and expanded animation. His films have qualified for the 96th Academy Awards, BAFTA, Goya, and Lumen Awards, winning the Uppsala Award in Memory of Ingmar Bergman, as well as the ZINEBI Grand Award and the Encounters Animation Grand Prix.
Carlos Velandia
Carlos Velandia 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 Carlos Velandia’s submission:
There is no such thing as the "greatest of all time" canon. As Mekas already said "The real history of cinema is invisible history: history of friends getting together, doing the thing they love. For us, the cinema is beginning with every new buzz of the projector, with every new buzz of our cameras. With every new buzz of our cameras, our hearts jump forward my friends." This list includes some short films that I hold close to my heart and that, in some way, have influenced my current practice as a filmmaker.
— Carlos Velandia| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Vampires of Poverty Agarrando Pueblo | Carlos Mayolo , Luis Ospina | Colombia | 1977 | 29’ | ||
| Serious Games 1–4 Ernste Spiele I-IV | Harun Farocki | Germany, USA | 2010 | |||
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||
| Dimensions of Dialogue Možnosti dialogu | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia | 1983 | 12’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| How to Disappear | Total Refusal | Austria | 2020 | 21’ | ||
| One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean | Wang Yuyan | France | 2020 | 11’ | ||
| Crocodile Nest Nido de Cocodrilo | Jazmin Rojas Forero | Colombia, Germany | 2024 | 9’ | ||
| Relatives of the Luminous Valley Parientes del valle luminoso | Juan Francisco Rodríguez | Colombia, Germany | 2025 | 12’ | ||