Ron Ma

Ron Ma 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 Ron Ma’s submission:

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
Illusions	Julie Dash	USA	1982	34’

The Last Angel of History	John Akomfrah	Germany, United Kingdom	1996	45’

Tongues Untied	Marlon Riggs	USA	1989	55’

Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen	Trịnh T. Minh-hà	Senegal, USA	1983	40’

Semiotics of the Kitchen	Martha Rosler	USA	1975	6’

Ani*Kuri15: Good Morning オハヨウ	Satoshi Kon	Japan	2007	1’

Dimensions of Dialogue Možnosti dialogu	Jan Švankmajer	Czechoslovakia	1983	12’

Neighbours	Norman McLaren	Canada	1952	9’

They Do Not Exist ليس لهم وجود	Mustafa Abu Ali	Palestine	1974	25’

Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog	Alain Resnais	France	1955	32’