Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales company Square Eyes. Launched in 2013 under the name Some Shorts, it changed to Square Eyes in 2019. The company represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and in close collaboration with the filmmakers, it devises bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. In the past, Wouter worked for 10 years as the head of programming at Go Short. He is an expert for Locarno Open Doors and First Cut Lab, and has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva, and the Netherlands Film Academy.
Wouter Jansen
Wouter Jansen 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 Wouter Jansen’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||
| Asparagus | Suzan Pitt | USA | 1979 | 20’ | ||
| I Could See a Puma Pude ver un puma | Eduardo Williams | Argentina | 2011 | 17’ | ||
| Nuit et brouillard Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | France | 1955 | 32’ | ||
| Please Say Something | David O'Reilly | Germany | 2008 | 10’ | ||
| The Heart of the World | Guy Maddin | Canada | 2000 | 6’ | ||
| Long Live the New Flesh | Nicolas Provost | Belgium | 2009 | 14’ | ||
| The Darkness of Day | Jay Rosenblatt | USA | 2009 | 26’ | ||
| World of Glory Härlig är jorden | Roy Andersson | Sweden | 1991 | 17’ | ||
| Lessons of Darkness Lektionen in Finsternis | Werner Herzog | France, United Kingdom, Germany | 1992 | 54’ | ||