Film historian and researcher Olivier Hadouchi’s PhD in Cinema Studies was dedicated to Cinema and the Fights of Liberation around Tricontinental. An independent researcher and film curator, Hadouchi has published texts in magazines such as CinémAction and Third Text, and has contributed to collective books on Tricontinental, conversations with Jocelyne Saab and Heiny Srour, and Algerian documentary cinema. He has curated film programmes titled “Sparkles and Tropical Insurrections from Latin America” for Courtisane and “Tricontinental. Cinema, Utopia and Internationalism” for Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Olivier Hadouchi
Olivier Hadouchi 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 Olivier Hadouchi’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire in Castilla (Tactilvision from the Moor of Fright) Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) | José Val del Omar | Spain | 1961 | 18’ | ||
| 79 Springs 79 Primaveras | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | 1969 | 25’ | ||
| The Embassy L'ambassade | Chris Marker | France | 1973 | 20’ | ||
| Visa de censure n° X | Pierre Clémenti | France | 1976 | 42’ | ||
| J’ai Huit Ans | Yann Le Masson, Olga Baïdar-Poliakoff | Algeria, France, Tunisia | 1962 | 8’ | ||
| Salut les Cubains Hello Cubans | Agnès Varda | Cuba, France | 1963 | 30’ | ||
| Contras’ City | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1969 | 22’ | |||
| Sun Soleil | Pierre Clémenti | France | 1989 | 16’ | ||
| At Land | Maya Deren | USA | 1944 | 15’ | ||
| Statues Also Die Les statues meurent aussi | Chris Marker , Alain Resnais , Ghislain | France | 1953 | 30’ | ||