Libertad Gills is a filmmaker and writer on film, serving as lecturer and researcher of Videographic Criticism (Film Studies) at the University of Leeds.
Libertad Gills
Libertad Gills 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 Libertad Gills’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now! | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1965 | 5’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Vever (for Barbara) | Deborah Stratman | USA | 2019 | 12’ | ||
| Tierra en trance | Colectivo Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | 2022 | 38’ | ||
| The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith | United Kingdom | 1976 | 12’ | ||
| Strata of Natural History | Jeannette Muñoz | Chile | 2012 | 12’ | ||
| Caprice | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom | 1986 | 28’ | ||
| Reckless Eyeballing | Christopher Harris | USA | 2004 | 13’ | ||
| Water for Maya | Stan Brakhage | USA | 2000 | 3’ | ||
| Waiting Entezar | Amir Naderi | Iran | 1974 | 48’ | ||