Sarah Wood is a film curator and artist who works with found objects, particularly archival film. She is one of the founding members of queer feminist collective Club des Femmes.
Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood 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 Sarah Wood’s submission:
Our list is in no particular order. We have chosen films that are revolutionary in form, subject matter and ideas. This list could change tomorrow. We are very sad to not be able to include: The House Is Black, Portrait of Jason, Dyketactics, Soft Fiction, Often During the Day, Serpent River, Take Off and Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman.
— Sarah Wood| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Like Twenty Impossible كأننا عشرون مستحيل | Annemarie Jacir | Palestine | 2003 | 15’ | ||
| Pescados | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina | 2010 | 4’ | ||
| Nice Coloured Girls | Tracey Moffat | Australia | 1987 | 16’ | ||
| Pumzi | Wanuri Kahiu | South Africa, Kenya | 2009 | 21’ | ||
| Réponse de femmes : Notre corps, notre sexe Women Reply | Agnès Varda | France | 1975 | 8’ | ||
| Oh Odessa! | Bev Zalcock, Sara Chambers | United Kingdom | 2003 | 4’ | ||
| Saute ma ville Blow Up My Town | Chantal Akerman | Belgium | 1968 | 13’ | ||
| Guerillere Talks | Vivienne Dick | USA | 1978 | 24’ | ||
| Colour Poems | Margaret Tait | United Kingdom | 1974 | 12’ | ||
| November | Hito Steyerl | Germany, Austria | 2004 | 25’ | ||