Edith van der Heijde works at Eye Filmmuseum, the museum for film and the moving image in the Netherlands. Eye combines a world-renowned film collection with expertise in restoration, education, exhibitions, and international promotion. At Eye, she manages a national distribution platform for Dutch short films, the Short Film Pool, a catalogue for Dutch experimental film, Eye Experimental, and as part of the SEE NL department, she is international promotion manager for Dutch shorts and experimental film. SEE NL is a collaboration between Eye Filmmuseum and the Netherlands Film Fund and is responsible for the international promotion of Dutch films, the film industry, and film culture.
Edith van der Heijde
Edith van der Heijde 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 Edith van der Heijde’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| Le Voyage dans la Lune | Georges Méliès | France | 1902 | 15’ | ||
| Glas Glass | Bert Haanstra | The Netherlands | 1958 | 10’ | ||
| Uncle Yanco Oncle Yanco | Agnès Varda | France | 1967 | 18’ | ||
| Darkness, Light, Darkness Tma, světlo, tma | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia | 1989 | 8’ | ||
| An Optical Poem | Oskar Fischinger | USA | 1938 | 8’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
| Father and Daughter | Michaël Dudok de Wit | Belgium, The Netherlands, United Kingdom | 2000 | 8’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||