Simone Bardoni

Simone Bardoni is the artistic director of the Concorto Film Festival in Italy. He has been involved as film curator since 2012, also works as professor at Cinema Studies faculty, MIA | Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo in Rome and with Lights On, world sales company of cinema.

Simone Bardoni 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 Simone Bardoni’s submission:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
Skhizein Jérémy Clapin France 2008 13’
Meshes of the Afternoon Alexander Hammid , Maya Deren USA 1946 14’
The Bakery Girl of Monceau La boulangère de Monceau Éric Rohmer France 1963 23’
Two Birds Smáfuglar Rúnar Rúnarsson Iceland 2008 15’
La Jetée Chris Marker France 1962 28’
Partie de campagne A Day in the Country Jean Renoir France 1946 41’
Le Voyage dans la Lune Georges Méliès France 1902 15’
Tango Zbigniew Rybczyński Poland 1981 8’
Scorpio Rising Kenneth Anger USA 1964 27’
Dimensions of Dialogue Možnosti dialogu Jan Švankmajer Czechoslovakia 1983 12’