Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer is a Mexican-American film critic, editor, and film programmer based in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the managing director at Le Cinéma Club and managing editor at Screen Slate. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and Notebook.
Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer
Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer 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 Nicolas Pedrero-Setzer’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Mécanique | Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | France | 1924 | 19’ | ||
| Dog’s Dialogue Colloque de chiens | Raúl Ruiz | France | 1979 | 22’ | ||
| The Secret Formula La Fórmula Secreta | Rubén Gámez | Mexico | 1965 | 42’ | ||
| God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance | Les Blank | USA | 1968 | 20’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| Ray Gun Virus | Paul Sharits | USA | 1966 | 14’ | ||
| Semiotics of the Kitchen | Martha Rosler | USA | 1975 | 6’ | ||
| La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | Louis Lumière | France | 1895 | 1’ | ||