Jorge Jácome

Jorge Jácome nam deel aan de poll “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, een unieke publieksbevraging als collectieve liefdesbrief aan de kunst van de korte film. yanco en Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in samenwerking met Talking Shorts, nodigden filmmakers, curatoren, distributeurs, critici en academici wereldwijd uit om tien audiovisuele werken van minder dan zestig minuten te nomineren die zij persoonlijk beschouwen als de “beste” aller tijden. Dit was de inzending van Jorge Jácome:

There are many ways to think about a list. I didn’t make this one to try and guess which films will appear in the top 100 — not at all. The best way I found was to think of the films that gave me the most joy and pleasure to watch — those experiences that reminded me why I love cinema — and that, even today, in 2025, I know remain deeply important to me. It’s interesting to look at this selection and notice a few things: there are too many male directors, all the films are from the 2000s onwards, and almost all belong to a certain “niche” — it’s likely that many won’t even make it into the top 100. But there’s something that connects them: these are works that orbit hybrid territories, between cinema and the visual arts. None of these filmmakers is defined solely by these shorts; each has a broader body of work that remains relevant and continues to interest me. These are films that taught me how to see. None of them is limited by their short duration — each opens paths to other films, other thoughts, other ways of understanding the world. And, of course, I’m certainly forgetting many others.

— Jorge Jácome

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
Streamside Day	Pierre Huyghe	Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk	2003	26’
What if a film could be an excuse to invent a fictional celebration for a new city? Huyghe turns ritual into pure speculative fiction. A cinema that is both documentary and speculative — a space for new possibilities to emerge.
The Anthem 赞美诗	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Verenigd Koninkrijk, Thailand	2006	5’
The gesture of cinema as a collective ceremony. The anthem becomes an exorcism, the screen a space for healing. Here, Apichatpong creates one of the most luminous and liberating ways of thinking about cinema as ritual and trance.
Plot Point Plot Point	Nicolas Provost	België	2008	15’
Provost reveals the hypnotic power of editing and shows that all it takes is a shift in context for reality to become cinema.
Parsi	Eduardo Williams, Mariano Blatt	Argentinië, Guinee-Bissau, Zwitserland	2019	23’
Using a 360º camera, Parsi redefines what a point of view can be. A cinema that doesn’t observe — it circulates. A film that makes us see the world from the inside out.
Interview with the Earth Entrevista con la tierra	Nicolás Pereda	Mexico	2008	18’
Between death and childhood, silence and memory, Pereda unearths something deeply mysterious — a cinema where every image seems to be both beginning and ending at once.
Madame Butterfly 蝴蝶夫人	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan, Frankrijk, Italië	2009	36’
A woman waits, motionless, caught between memory and performance. Tsai turns stillness into a form of resistance, and grief into choreography.
Palaces of Pity Palácios de Pena	Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt	Portugal	2011	59’
Political, sensual, delirious. Abrantes blends soap opera, theory, and teenage fiction to craft a satire on cultural inheritance.
Jewels	Sandro Aguilar	Portugal, Duitsland	2013	18’
Aguilar sculpts time like a jeweler cuts stone — revealing emotion through rhythm. Narrative gives way to sensation; meaning hides in the shimmer between images. Jewels is cinema stripped to its essence: mysterious, tactile, and utterly hypnotic.
Explosion Ma Baby	Pauline Curnier-Jardin	Frankrijk, Nederland	2016	8’
The film explodes — literally — in color, body, and ritual, turning cinema into a space of celebration, fury, and reinvention.
2 Lizards	Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki	Verenigde Staten	2020	24’
An iconic film made during the pandemic — a portrait of confinement. Two animated lizards comment on the absurdity of everyday life — moving between humor, critique, and melancholy.