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Tango (Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1981)

    Tango

    Zbigniew Rybczyński, Poland, 1981, 8’

    A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection.

    Zbigniew Rybczynski worked eight hours a day for ten months on the Oscar-winning Tango. He brings together a jumble of cut-out photos featuring countless figures of all kinds and ages in a flawlessly synchronised animation. The work was formally highly innovative at the time, establishing Rybczynski as one of the most inventive experimental filmmakers in Europe in the 1980s. 

    Bio Zbigniew Rybczyński

    Polish multimedia artist Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949) has won numerous prestigious industry awards, including the 1983 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango. He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and pioneering experimentation in new image technology.

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    “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

    02.02.2026

    As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.

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    Women I Love

    Barbara Hammer, USA, 1976, 23’

    A series of cameo portraits of Barbara Hammer’s friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature. The culminating footage evokes a tantric painting of sustained sexuality.

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    Impossible Figures and Other Stories II

    Marta Pajek, Poland, 2016, 15’

    A woman trips and falls while rushing around the house. She gets up only to discover that her home has unusual features—it is built from paradoxes, filled with illusions, and covered with patterns.

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    Language of the Entrails

    Luciana Decker Orozco, Bolivia, USA, 2025, 12’

    A journey to the underworld begins within our own entrails. This film explores the intimate rhythm of digestion only to next investigate the becoming of geological eras, inspired by Gamaliel Churata’s El Pez de Oro, in which he states, “we all carry the dead alive; that the dead live.”

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    Snow Edge

    Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

    The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Lynne Sachs, USA, 1987, 7’

    Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a woman. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the “gaze”.

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    Paradise

    Laura Vandewynckel, Belgium, 2014, 6’

    People are heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although their paths do cross at times, they never really seem to meet. Paradise is a light-hearted yet critical reflection on the ethics of tourism.

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    Empty House

    Gina Kim, South Korea, USA, 1999, 24’

    This video diary depicts a young woman’s flat, the fears and fantasies about her body plainly revealed as she wakes up with a bloated face, full of self-loathing after a night of compulsive over-eating.

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    Oh Willy...

    Emma De Swaef, Marc James Roels, Belgium, 2011, 17’

    A gentle, middle-aged man returns to the nudist colony he grew up in to visit his elderly mother. Her sudden death leaves Willy in a state of sadness. He soon finds himself lost in the midst of a savage wilderness, trying to find comfort.

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