Hicham Awad is a writer, editor, and programmer living in New York. He teaches film studies at The Cooper Union and is managing editor of e-flux Books. He is on the editorial committee of the quarterly magazine Narrow Margin.
Hicham Awad
Hicham Awad 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 Hicham Awad’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mercury | Bradley Eros | USA | 1999 | 7’ | ||
| Le Tempestaire The Storm-Tamer | Jean Epstein | France | 1947 | 22’ | ||
| Blood of the Beasts Le sang des bêtes | Georges Franju | France | 1949 | 23’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| Les Mains négatives | Marguerite Duras | France | 1978 | 14’ | ||
| Rejection Front Le front du refus (ou les commando-suicides) | Jocelyne Saab | Palestine, Lebanon | 1975 | 13’ | ||
| The Memory الذاكرة | Mohamad Malas | Syria | 1975 | 13’ | ||
| Castro Street | Bruce Bailie | USA | 1966 | 10’ | ||
| Shelly Winters | Luther Price | USA | 2010 | 11’ | ||
| To Alter the Image Changer d'image : Lettre à la bien-aimée | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1982 | 10’ | ||