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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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    • This film was #12 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025
      voted by Kornél Szilágyi, Emilia Mazik, Mackenzie Fincham, Flavia Mazzarino, Marcin Luczaj, Ivan Ramljak, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Aleksandra Ławska, Sven Pötting, Carlos Ramos, Marie Ketzscher, Joanna Baranowska, Tony Hill, Simone Bardoni
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    Sirens

    Raoul Servais, Belgium, 1968, 9’

    A lonesome angler becomes witness to an eccentric idyll between a cabin boy and a mermaid. Dream or reality?

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    Mamada Perdida

    Joke Van den hof, Belgium, 2016, 6’

    It is sometimes said that if a man places a pearl under the skin of his penis, he will bring the woman the greatest pleasure. He grants her the greatest of all pleasures, while she will give him anything he desires. After a playful love dance, she melts into him, at the cost of losing themselves in each other to arrive at their deepest desires.

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    Loveboard

    Felipe Casanova, Belgium, Switzerland, 2023, 17’

    A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken queer relationship. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the filmmaker’s attentive look at an intimate archive, a fading first love surfaces. Loveboard is a playful reflection on what remains.

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    Downside Up

    Tony Hill, United Kingdom, 1984, 18’

    With a single camera movement, this film explores humankind’s relationship to the ground. The viewpoint continuously changes. Places, objects, people, and events come in and out of focus. These observations gradually speed up and reveal a double-sided ground, flipping like a tossed coin, which then slows again to oscillate around the Earth’s edge.

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    The White Elephant

    Shuruq Harb, Palestine, 2018, 12’

    Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada, and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb paints the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s. In the midst of Israeli pop culture and the political climate of the Oslo Accords, she comes to grips with her anxiety.

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    Scum Mutation

    Ov, France, 2020, 10’

    In this cyberpunk animation, four creatures wobble like marionettes in a black void. An alien power tries to subdue them; police voices strike as if they were truncheons, but these vulnerable bodies start to fight back.

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    Working Knowledge of Ritual

    Hannan Jones, Australia, 2023, 4’

    By interweaving esoteric texts and images, Working Knowledge of Ritual underscores the interconnectedness of spirituality and nature. The film muses on our energies alongside the natural world, inspired by the writings of Leonard Jones.

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    elephantfish

    Meltse Van Coillie, Belgium, 2018, 27’

    A ship drifts in the middle of an endless sea. Aboard is a crew of five. They all cope with boredom — some by trying to overpower it; others by escaping into a parallel world guided by dreams.

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