Gunter Deller is a curator of the Mal Seh’n Kino, an arthouse cinema in Frankfurt am Main. Deller also works as an artist in the field of experimental cinema and video installation.
Gunter Deller
Gunter Deller 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 Gunter Deller’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schwechater | Peter Kubelka | Austria | 1958 | 1’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Bouquets 1-10 | Rose Lowder | France | 1995 | 12’ | ||
| Water and Power | Pat O'Neill | USA | 1989 | 57’ | ||
| En rachâchant | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | France | 1982 | 7’ | ||
| Friendly Witness | Warren Sonbert | USA | 1989 | 22’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Love is a Treasure Rakkaus on aarre | Eijah Liisa-Ahtila | Finland | 2002 | 57’ | ||
| The Seasons Տարվա եղանակները | Artavazd Peleshian | Soviet Union | 1975 | 29’ | ||
| Twice a Man | Gregory J. Markopoulos | USA | 1963 | 49’ | ||