Charles Eames

Charles Eames was an American designer, architect, and filmmaker. In a creative partnership with his spouse, Ray Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing, and the photographic arts.

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Powers of Ten (Ray Eames & Charles Eames, 1977)

Powers of Ten

Charles Eames, Ray Eames, USA, 1977, 9’

A man is sitting on a picnic blanket in a Chicago park on Lake Michigan. He is filmed from above. Every 10 seconds, the camera zooms out by a factor of 10. Finally, we see the entire universe, with constellations floating around like clouds of cream in ink-black coffee.

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“Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

02.02.2026

As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.