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Clara Helbig
Clara Helbig 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 Clara Helbig’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Private Life of a Cat The Private Life of a Cat | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 29’ | ||
| The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1972 | 32’ | ||
| The Expression of Hands Der Ausdruck der Hände | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1997 | 30’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| The Skywalk is Gone 天橋不見了 | Tsai Ming-Liang | Taiwan | 2002 | 25’ | ||
| Wasp | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | 2003 | 26’ | ||
| Lovely Andrea | Hito Steyerl | Japan, Germany | 2007 | 30’ | ||
| America | Garrett Bradley | USA | 2019 | 30’ | ||
| Atlantiques | Mati Diop | France, Senegal | 2009 | 16’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||