Michael Sicinski is a writer and teacher based in Houston, Texas.
Michael Sicinski
Michael Sicinski 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 Michael Sicinski’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Canada, USA | 1967 | 45’ | ||
| Side / Walk / Shuttle | Ernie Gehr | USA | 1992 | 41’ | ||
| T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G | Paul Sharits | USA | 1969 | 12’ | ||
| Report | Bruce Conner | USA | 1967 | 13’ | ||
| passage à l'acte | Martin Arnold | Austria | 1993 | 12’ | ||
| Our Trip to Africa Unsere Afrikareise | Peter Kubelka | Austria | 1966 | 13’ | ||
| Mothlight | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1963 | 4’ | ||
| Spacy | Takashi Ito | Japan | 1981 | 10’ | ||
| Sink or Swim | Su Friedrich | USA | 1990 | 48’ | ||