Paul Landriau is a distributor at La Distributrice. He founded the cult blog Point de vues in 2012 and co-founded the Plein(s) Écran(s) festival in 2016. He has also served as director of programming for RVQC and FCVQ, as well as being president of the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.
Paul Landriau
Paul Landriau 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 Paul Landriau’s submission:
This list isn't in any particular order. There would be so many more to choose. I also want to highlight the work of filmmaker Takashi Ito.
— Paul Landriau| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Apocalypse After Ultra Pulpe | Bertrand Mandico | France | 2018 | 37’ | ||
| Dog’s Dialogue Colloque de chiens | Raúl Ruiz | France | 1979 | 22’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | France | 1928 | 21’ | ||
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren | USA | 1946 | 14’ | ||
| The Man Who Planted Trees L'homme qui plantait des arbres | Frédéric Back | Canada | 1987 | 30’ | ||
| Tale of Tales Сказка сказок | Yuri Norstein | Soviet Union | 1979 | 29’ | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1964 | 27’ | ||
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||