Koyo Yamashita has been the Image Forum festival director since 2001.
Koyo Yamashita
Koyo Yamashita 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 Koyo Yamashita’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnulf Rainer | Peter Kubelka | Austria | 1960 | 7’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Cut-off Movie Setsudan | Okuyama Jun’ichi | Japan | 1969 | 15’ | ||
| Line Describing a Cone | Anthony McCall | United Kingdom | 1973 | 30’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| Diagonal Symphony Symphonie Diagonale | Viking Eggeling | Germany | 1924 | 7’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Jesus Blood | Stephen Dwoskin | United Kingdom | 1972 | 30’ | ||
| Spacy | Takashi Ito | Japan | 1981 | 10’ | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1964 | 27’ | ||