Carmen Gray is a New Zealand-born, Berlin-based film journalist and programmer for the Berlinale and the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Carmen Gray
Carmen Gray 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 Carmen Gray’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Hedgehog in the Fog Ёжик в тумане | Yuri Norstein | Soviet Union | 1975 | 11’ | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1964 | 27’ | ||
| Woodcutter Лесоруб | Yevgeny Yufit | Soviet Union | 1985 | 8’ | ||
| The Ballad of Sexual Dependency | Nan Goldin | USA | 1986 | 43’ | ||
| Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | Todd Haynes | USA | 1987 | 43’ | ||
| A Bag of Fleas Pytel blech | Vera Chytilová | Czechoslovakia | 1962 | 43’ | ||
| Even Is She Had Been a Criminal... Eût-elle été criminelle... | Jean-Gabriel Périot | France | 2006 | 9’ | ||
| Antigravitation Antigravitacija | Audrius Stonys | Lithuania | 1995 | 20’ | ||
| Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme არაბესკები ფიროსმანის თემაზე | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union | 1985 | 25’ | ||