Jaime Grijalba is a freelance film critic and programmer based in Chile, currently translating the Raúl Ruiz Diaries on Substack.
Jaime Grijalba
Jaime Grijalba 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 Jaime Grijalba’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1972 | 32’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project | Jodie Mack | USA | 2013 | 41’ | ||
| Road Signs Señales de ruta | Tevo Díaz | Chile | 2000 | 30’ | ||
The best Chilean film of all time. |
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| It’s Such a Beautiful Day | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | 2011 | 23’ | ||
| Everything Will Be OK | Don Hertzfeldt | USA | 2006 | 17’ | ||
| Isle of Flowers Ilha das Flores | Jorge Furtado | Brazil | 1989 | 13’ | ||
| 7:35 in the Morning 7:35 de la mañana | Nacho Vigalondo | Spain | 2003 | 8’ | ||
| Scaffold | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | 2017 | 15’ | ||
| Long-Haired Hare | Chuck Jones | USA | 1949 | 8’ | ||