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
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’ | ||