Julian Ross is Head of Film Programming & Distribution at Eye Filmmuseum, the Netherlands.
Julian Ross
Julian Ross 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 Julian Ross’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Solidarity | Joyce Wieland | Canada | 1973 | 11’ | ||
| Mouth to Mouth | Theresa Hak Kyung Cha | USA | 1975 | 8’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Fatima’s Letter | Alia Syed | United Kingdom | 1992 | 21’ | ||
| La petite vendeuse de soleil The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun | Djibril Diop Mambéty | France, Senegal, Switzerland | 1999 | 45’ | ||
| brouillard #14 | Alexandre Larose | Canada | 2013 | 10’ | ||
| Foyer | Ismaïl Bahri | France, Tunisia | 2016 | 32’ | ||
| Dislocation Blues | Sky Hopinka | USA | 2017 | 17’ | ||
| Mud Man 土の人 | Chikako Yamashiro | Japan | 2017 | 23’ | ||