Jason Anderson is a programmer, critic, and lecturer in Toronto who programmes shorts and features for such festivals as the Toronto International Film Festival and Aspen Shortsfest.
Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson 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 Jason Anderson’s submission:
So happy to get to take part! Wish I had more room for contemporary titles but 10 is not a larger number...
— Jason Anderson| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pas de deux | Norman McLaren | Canada | 1968 | 13’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Cinderella | Lotte Reiniger | Germany | 1922 | 13’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| The Heart of the World | Guy Maddin | Canada | 2000 | 6’ | ||
| La Chute | Boris Labbé | France | 2018 | 4’ | ||
| Wasp | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | 2003 | 26’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Incident by a Bank Händelse vid bank | Ruben Östlund | Sweden | 2010 | 12’ | ||
| Atlantiques | Mati Diop | France, Senegal | 2009 | 16’ | ||