Graeme Arnfield is an artist, filmmaker, and composer living in London, raised in Cheshire, UK. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery, his films employ investigative storytelling to explore issues of technology, ecology, and history. His work has been presented at prestigious festivals worldwide, including the Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. His work is distributed by LUX, Arsenal, and Square Eyes.
Graeme Arnfield
Graeme Arnfield 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 Graeme Arnfield’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swamp | Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt | USA | 1969 | 6’ | ||
| BIT Plane | Bureau of Inverse Technology | USA | 1999 | 13’ | ||
| Erth | John Latham | United Kingdom | 1971 | 25’ | ||
| A and B in Ontario | Joyce Wieland, Hollis Frampton | USA | 1984 | 16’ | ||
| Crossroads | Bruce Conner | USA | 1976 | 36’ | ||
| Very Nice, Very Nice | Arthur Lipsett | Canada | 1961 | 7’ | ||
| Soft Fiction | Chick Strand | USA | 1979 | 55’ | ||
| Remedial Reading Comprehension | Owen Land | USA | 1970 | 5’ | ||
| Superdyke Meets Madame X | Barbara Hammer | USA | 1976 | 19’ | ||
| Inventory Inventur - Metzstraße 11 | Želimir Žilnik | Germany | 1975 | 9’ | ||