Maximilien Luc Proctor (MLP) is a French-American filmmaker, critic, and curator. He records music in the band Two Nice Catholic Boys, is the founder and co-editor of Ultra Dogme, and the avant-garde instructor for Berlin’s Art-on-the-Run film school.
Maximilien Luc Proctor
Maximilien Luc Proctor 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 Maximilien Luc Proctor’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Negative Man | Cathy Joritz | USA, Germany | 1985 | 2’ | ||
| The United States of America | Bette Gordon , James Benning | USA | 1975 | 27’ | ||
| Words of Mercury | Jerome Hiler | USA | 2011 | 25’ | ||
| Screen Test [ST33]: Ann Buchanan | Andy Warhol | USA | 1964 | 4’ | ||
| FFFTCM | Will Hindle | USA | 1967 | 5’ | ||
| If I forget thee, Gaza إن نسيتك يا غزة | Vincent Guilbert | Japan | 2024 | 4’ | ||
| Strange Fruit | Skip Norman | Germany, USA | 1969 | 28’ | ||
| Remembrance: A Portrait Study | Edward Owens | USA | 1967 | 6’ | ||
| Women I Love | Barbara Hammer | USA | 1976 | 23’ | ||
| Arabesque Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque | Germaine Dulac | France | 1929 | 8’ | ||