Maximilien Van Aertryck

Maximilien Van Aertryck (1989) is a French-German-Swedish filmmaker. His short films in collaboration with Axel Danielson have premiered in the official competitions of Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, and Toronto. Ten Meter Tower was shortlisted for an Oscar.

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Ten Meter Tower (Maximilien Van Aertryck & Axel Danielson, 2016)

Ten Meter Tower

Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden, 2016, 17’

A ten-metre-high diving board. People climb up: to leap or to climb down? Ten Meter Tower is an entertaining study of human vulnerability.

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“Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

02.02.2026

As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.