Laura Staab is a writer and editor from London.
Laura Staab
Laura Staab 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 Laura Staab’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Land | Maya Deren | USA | 1944 | 15’ | ||
| How Some Jellyfish Are Born Comment naissent des méduses | Jean Painlevé , Geneviève Hamon | France | 1960 | 14’ | ||
| One | Yoko Ono | United Kingdom | 1966 | 5’ | ||
| Fuses | Carolee Schneemann | USA | 1967 | 29’ | ||
| La Chambre The Room | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1972 | 11’ | ||
| Workshop Taller | Narcisa Hirsch | Argentina | 1974 | 11’ | ||
| Seven Trials Hétpróba | Dóra Maurer | Hungary | 1982 | 58’ | ||
| Chat écoutant de la musique Cat Listening to Music | Chris Marker | France | 1988 | 3’ | ||
| Apple Harvest Apfelernte | Helga Fanderl | Germany | 1994 | 3’ | ||
| 025 Sunset Red | Laida Lertxundi | USA | 2016 | 14’ | ||