Michael Sicinski

Michael Sicinski is a writer and teacher based in Houston, Texas.

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’