Jawni Han is a writer, translator, and filmmaker originally from Seoul, now based in New York.
Jawni Han
Jawni Han 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 Jawni Han’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passage Through: A Ritual | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1990 | 49’ | ||
Brakhage’s greatest work |
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| De l’origine du XXIe siècle | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland | 2000 | 16’ | ||
| Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass | Hollis Frampton | USA | 1971 | 26’ | ||
| A Cenutry of Energy 1 Século de Energia | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | 2015 | 15’ | ||
| My Dad is 100 Years Old | Guy Maddin | Canada | 2005 | 17’ | ||
| The Book of Mary Le Livre de Marie | Anne-Marie Miéville | Switzerland, France | 1984 | 28’ | ||
| Screen Test: Susan Sontag [ST318] | Andy Warhol | USA | 1964 | 4’ | ||
| <–––> Back and Forth | Michael Snow | Canada | 1969 | 52’ | ||
| Capitalism: Child Labor | Ken Jacobs | USA | 2007 | 14’ | ||
| When It Rains | Charles Burnett | USA | 1995 | 13’ | ||