Deborah Stratman

Deborah Stratman 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 Deborah Stratman’s submission:

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
Lightning	Paul Kos, Marlene Kos	USA	1976	1’

Solidarity	Joyce Wieland	Canada	1973	11’

Surely Bach Closed the Door When He Wanted to Work Seguro que Bach cerraba la puerta cuando quería trabajar	Narcisa Hirsch	Argentina	1979	27’

Fake Fruit Factory	Chick Strand	USA	1986	22’

Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht Not Reconciled	Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet	Germany	1966	55’

Peggy and Fred in Hell	Leslie Thornton	USA	1985	20’

Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen	Trịnh T. Minh-hà	Senegal, USA	1983	40’

The Girl Chewing Gum	John Smith	United Kingdom	1976	12’

The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast	Forugh Farrokzhad	Iran	1963	22’

Jane Brakhage	Barbara Hammer	USA	1974	10’