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Holly Knudsen
Holly Knudsen 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 Holly Knudsen’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Snit | Richard Condie | Canada | 1985 | 10’ | ||
| One Froggy Evening | Chuck Jones | USA | 1955 | 7’ | ||
| One Week | Buster Keaton , Edward F. Cline | USA | 1920 | 24’ | ||
| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
| Creature Comforts | Nick Park | United Kingdom | 1989 | 5’ | ||
| The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | United Kingdom | 1993 | 30’ | ||
| World of Tomorrow | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | 2015 | 17’ | ||
| World of Tomorrow Epsiode Three: The Absent Destination of David Prime | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | 2020 | 34’ | ||
| Rejected | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | 2000 | 9’ | ||
| When the Day Breaks | Wendy Tilby | Canada | 1999 | 10’ | ||