Matías Piñeiro

Matías Piñeiro is a filmmaker and professor in film. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; based in New York, USA. His last film was You Burn Me.

Matías Piñeiro 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 Matías Piñeiro’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège Zero for Conduct Jean Vigo France 1933 41’
Partie de campagne A Day in the Country Jean Renoir France 1946 41’
At Land Maya Deren USA 1944 15’
Michael Hamburger Tacita Dean United Kingdom 2007 28’
J’ai faim, j’ai froid I’m Hungry, I’m Cold Chantal Akerman France 1984 12’
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’
Landscape (for Manon) Peter Hutton USA 1987 13’
Mothlight Stan Brakhage USA 1963 4’
The Bakery Girl of Monceau La Boulangère de Monceau Éric Rohmer France 1963 23’
The Vampires of Poverty Agarrando Pueblo Carlos Mayolo , Luis Ospina Colombia 1977 29’