Nicky Ni is a writer, curator, and film curator based in Chicago. She currently works at Newcity and Video Data Bank and is a festival programmer for Onion City Film Festival.
Nicky Ni
Nicky Ni 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 Nicky Ni’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Began by Measuring Distance | Basma Alsharif | Egypt | 2009 | 20’ | ||
| One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train Cien niños esperando un tren | Ignacio Agüero | Chile, United Kingdom | 1988 | 57’ | ||
| Last Things | Deborah Stratman | USA | 2023 | 50’ | ||
| Body Beautiful | Ngozi Onwurah | United Kingdom | 1990 | 23’ | ||
| Lessons from a Calf もう一つの教育～伊那小学校春組の記録 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan | 1991 | 47’ | ||
| Dislocation Blues | Sky Hopinka | USA | 2017 | 17’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Measures of Distance | Mona Hatoum | Canada, United Kingdom | 1988 | 15’ | ||
| Irani Bag | Maryam Tafakory | Iran | 2021 | 8’ | ||
| Trio A | Yvonne Rainer | USA | 1978 | 11’ | ||