Will Sloan is a writer and podcast mogul from Toronto. His book Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA is out now.
Will Sloan
Will Sloan 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 Will Sloan’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Plumbing We Will Go | Del Lord | USA | 1940 | 18’ | ||
| Anticipation of the Night | Stan Brakhage | USA | 1958 | 42’ | ||
| The Big Snooze | Bob Clampett, Arthur Davis | USA | 1946 | 8’ | ||
| Duck Amuck | Chuck Jones | USA | 1953 | 7’ | ||
| In the Darkness of Time Dans le noir du temps | Jean-Luc Godard | France | 2002 | 10’ | ||
| Kid Auto Races at Venice | Henry Lehrman | USA | 1914 | 6’ | ||
| The Music Box | James Parrott | USA | 1932 | 29’ | ||
| Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | Dave Fleischer | USA | 1936 | 16’ | ||
| Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | USA | 1927 | 44’ | ||
| The Wrong Trousers | Nick Park | United Kingdom | 1993 | 30’ | ||