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Courtney Stephens
Courtney Stephens 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 Courtney Stephens’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Gap-Toothed Women | Les Blank | USA | 1988 | 31’ | ||
| Small Deaths | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom | 1996 | 11’ | ||
| Parallel Series | Harun Farocki | Germany | 2016 | |||
| Measures of Distance | Mona Hatoum | Canada, United Kingdom | 1988 | 15’ | ||
| The Blazing World | Jessica Bardsley | USA | 2013 | 20’ | ||
| Maria (Peasant Elegy) | Alexander Sokurov | Soviet Union, Russia | 1988 | 40’ | ||
| La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe | Werner Herzog | Germany, Guadeloupe | 1977 | 31’ | ||
| Home When You Return | Carl Elsaesser | USA | 2021 | 30’ | ||
| Glas Glass | Bert Haanstra | The Netherlands | 1958 | 10’ | ||