Edo Choi is a programmer, projectionist, and critic based in New York City. He is currently Film Programmer at Metrograph and was formerly Associate Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image. He has written for publications including Cine-File, Film Comment, the Metrograph Journal, and Reverse Shot.
Edo Choi
Edo Choi 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 Edo Choi’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le village de Namo | Gabriel Veyre | France | 1900 | 1’ | ||
| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
| Partie de campagne A Day in the Country | Jean Renoir | France | 1946 | 41’ | ||
| A Diary for Timothy | Humphrey Jennings | United Kingdom | 1945 | 39’ | ||
| One Froggy Evening | Chuck Jones | USA | 1955 | 7’ | ||
| Journey سفر | Bahrām Beyzāêi | Iran | 1972 | 34’ | ||
| Egyptian Series | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1984 | 17’ | ||
| A Depression in the Bay of Bengal | Mark LaPore | USA | 1996 | 29’ | ||
| Pitcher of Colored Light | Robert Beavers | USA | 2007 | 23’ | ||
| Orpheus (Outtakes) | Mary Helena Clark | USA | 2012 | 6’ | ||