Daniel Mattes is a California-born producer based in Phnom Penh and a partner at the Cambodian production company Anti-Archive. He most recently produced Polen Ly’s debut feature, Becoming Human (2025), and the short film, Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites (2025).
Daniel Mattes
Daniel Mattes 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 Daniel Mattes’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Emerald Morakot | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 2007 | 11’ | ||
Short films can be life-changing! |
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| Mobile Men | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 2008 | 4’ | ||
My favorite short film of all time, bar none. |
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| Letters from Panduranga 来自宾童龙的信 | Nguyen Trinh Thi | Vietnam | 2015 | 35’ | ||
| Blessed Blessed Oblivion | Jumana Manna | Palestine | 2010 | 21’ | ||
| Mud Man 土の人 | Chikako Yamashiro | Japan | 2016 | 23’ | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1964 | 27’ | ||
| Partie de campagne A Day in the Country | Jean Renoir | France | 1946 | 41’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| The Big Shave | Martin Scorsese | USA | 1967 | 6’ | ||
| La Ricotta | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy | 1963 | 34’ | ||