Matti Ullrich

Matti Ullrich 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 Matti Ullrich’s submission:

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
Black Panthers	Agnès Varda	France	1968	28’

Cathedral	Ronald Chase	USA	1971	10’

Tongues Untied	Marlon Riggs	USA	1989	55’

La Jetée	Chris Marker	France	1962	28’

Blessed Blessed Oblivion مُبارك مُبارك النسيان	Jumana Manna	Palestine	2010	21’

Wavelength	Michael Snow	Canada, USA	1967	45’

The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast	Forugh Farrokzhad	Iran	1963	22’

Nicht löschbares Feuer The Inextinguishable Fire	Harun Farocki	Germany	1969	22’

Dyketactics	Barbara Hammer	USA	1974	4’

Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog	Alain Resnais	France	1955	32’