Originally from Sunderland, Neil Young now resides in Vienna. He makes / acts in / writes about / presents / curates films.
Neil Young
Neil Young 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 Neil Young’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
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| Gerdy, the Wicked Witch Gerdy, zločesta vještica | Ljubomir Šimunić | Yugoslavia | 1976 | 14’ | ||
the greatest of all films, regardless of length |
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| In the Lohm Valley Im Lohmgrund | Jürgen Böttcher | Germany | 1977 | 27’ | ||
1/10/25: Böttcher is still with us, 94. Celebrate him! |
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| The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk Gratinirani mozak Pupilije Ferkeverk | Karpo Godina | Yugoslavia | 1970 | 11’ | ||
| Water Wrackets | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom | 1975 | 12’ | ||
| The Brickmakers Chircales | Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva | Colombia | 1972 | 42’ | ||
| I Am Somebody | Madeline Anderson | USA | 1970 | 28’ | ||
1/10/25: still the greatest film ever made by an Anderson, and she's also still with us, 98 or so years young. Celebrate her! |
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| Light Being Ser de luz | Diana Toucedo | Spain | 2009 | 5’ | ||
| Windy Day | Faith Hubley & John Hubley | USA | 1968 | 9’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)" (A-ha) | Steve Barron | United Kingdom | 2010 | 4’ | ||
a wildcard, straight from the heart |
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