Lucía Salas is an Argentinian film critic, programmer, editor, and filmmaker based in Spain. Her work navigates cinema, past and present. She is one of the editors of La vida útil magazine. She studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires and Aesthetics and Politics at CalArts, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Communications-CINEMA programme at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. As part of the filmmaking collective LaSiberia Cine, she made the films Implantación (2011) and Los exploradores (2016).
Lucía Salas
Lucía Salas 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 Lucía Salas’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Vampires of Poverty Agarrando Pueblo | Carlos Mayolo , Luis Ospina | Colombia | 1977 | 29’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Come Out | Narcisa Hirsch | Argentina | 1971 | 12’ | ||
| Workers leaving the Sin Bombo factory Salida de la fábrica de cigarrillos "La sin bombo" | (unknown) | Argentina | 1911 | 3’ | ||
| El campo para el hombre | Helena Lumbreras, Lisa Mariano | Spain, Italy | 1975 | 50’ | ||
| Soft Fiction | Chick Strand | USA | 1979 | 55’ | ||
| A Dream as in Colours Un sueño como de colores | Valeria Sarmiento | Chile | 1972 | 10’ | ||
| Reverón | Margot Benacerraf | Venezuela | 1952 | 30’ | ||
| They Kill Me If I Don’t Work and If I Work They Kill Me Me matan si no trabajo y si trabajo me matan | Raymundo Gleyzer, Cine de la Base | Argentina | 1974 | 21’ | ||
| The Komsomol - Sponsor of Electrification Komsomol Shef Elektrifikatsii | Esfir Shub | Soviet Union | 1932 | 56’ | ||