Liam Kenny is a film critic and filmmaker based in NYC. He is on the editorial board of Narrow Margin magazine and is occasionally featured at Ultra Dogme.
Liam Kenny
Liam Kenny 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 Liam Kenny’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All My Life | Bruce Baillie | USA | 1966 | 3’ | ||
| Pitcher of Colored Light | Robert Beavers | Germany, USA | 2007 | 23’ | ||
| Gammelion | Gregory J. Markopoulos | Italy | 1968 | 55’ | ||
| Run | Luther Price | USA | 1994 | 15’ | ||
| Woman of Tokyo 東京の女 | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan | 1933 | 47’ | ||
| Airs | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1976 | 24’ | ||
| Islands of Fire Isole di fuoco | Vittorio de Seta | Italy | 1955 | 11’ | ||
| The Painting | Robert Beavers | USA, Switzerland | 1972 | 12’ | ||
| The Secret Garden | Phil Solomon | USA | 1988 | 18’ | ||
| The Power of Speech Puissance de la parole | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1988 | 25’ | ||