Salome Lamas

Salomé Lamas is a Portuguese filmmaker, visual artist, and educator. She studied cinema in Lisbon and Prague, visual arts in Amsterdam, and is a Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Art Studies in Coimbra. Her work has been screened and discussed both in art venues and film festivals around the globe. She is an assistant guest professor at the FBAUL – Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidade de Lisboa.

Salome Lamas 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 Salome Lamas’s submission:

No particular order assigned. Polls are what they are!

— Salome Lamas
Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast Forugh Farrokzhad Iran 1963 22’
Spiral Jetty Robert Smithson USA 1960 35’
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes Stan Brakhage USA 1972 32’
La Jetée Chris Marker France 1962 28’
Le Voyage dans la Lune Georges Méliès France 1902 15’
Un Chien Andalou Luis Buñuel France 1928 21’
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren USA 1946 14’
I’m Too Sad to Tell You Bas Jan Ader. The Netherlands 1970 3’
Black Panthers Agnès Varda France 1968 28’
Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog Alain Resnais France 1955 32’