Paul Landriau

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 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’