Daniela Hanusová is a curator and festival organiser. She works as project manager and head of acquisitions at the VOD platform DAFilms.com, which focuses on documentary and experimental film. She also serves as executive director and programmer of ART*VR, the Festival of Virtual Reality and Immersive Art in Prague, and as coordinator of the Critics Academy at the Locarno Film Festival. Occasionally, she contributes to the Slovak online film magazine Pontón. She holds degrees in Film Studies and Gender Studies from Charles University in Prague.
Daniela Hanusová
Daniela Hanusová 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 Daniela Hanusová’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Salut les Cubains Hello Cubans | Agnès Varda | Cuba, France | 1963 | 30’ | ||
The politics of daily life, the joy, the dancing! |
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| A Month of Single Frames | Lynne Sachs , Barbara Hammer | USA | 2019 | 14’ | ||
A beautifully vulnerable reflection on friendship, collaboration, and death. |
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| Window Water Baby Moving | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1959 | 13’ | ||
The miracle of life and filmmaking. |
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| La Paresse Portrait of a Lazy Woman | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1986 | 14’ | ||
I'll write the comment when I get out of bed. |
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| One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train Cien niños esperando un tren | Ignacio Agüero | Chile, United Kingdom | 1988 | 57’ | ||
A film that could only emerge from an enduring love of cinema and a deep belief in humanity. |
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| Dimensions of Dialogue Možnosti dialogu | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia | 1983 | 12’ | ||
The film says it all (with no words). |
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| Rien que les heures | Alberto Cavalcanti | France | 1926 | 43’ | ||
A sentimental choice. Saw this one as a 20-year-old on a horrendous copy, still left altered. |
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| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
Peak of entertainment until the end of times. |
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| Dance, Voldo, Dance | Chris Brandt | USA | 2002 | 4’ | ||
One of the reasons shorts are so great is that they're a perfect format to be playful with simple ideas. I think about this homoerotic machinima gem all the time. The power of cinema, baby. |
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| 8 Billion Selves 8 miljard ikken | Tibor de Jong | The Netherlands | 2024 | 21’ | ||
It wouldn't be a complete list without an XR work. Forever lobbying for these wonderfully weird and imaginative ways of storytelling. |
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