Joshua Simon

Joshua Simon 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 Joshua Simon:

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
La Ricotta	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italië	1963	34’
Saw it as a teenager and wanted to make films ever since...
Nicht löschbares Feuer The Inextinguishable Fire	Harun Farocki	Duitsland	1969	22’
You can return to it again and again to learn how to see.
Letter to Jane	Jean-Luc Godard , Jean Pierre Gorin	Frankrijk	1972	52’
With all of its apparent flaws—a document of what meaning images have.
The Way Things Go Der Lauf der Dinge	Peter Fischli, David Weiss	Zwitserland	1987	29’
Inventive, brilliant and funny
Der Schlamm Von Branst	Harald Thys, Jos de Gruyter	België	2008	20’
Brilliant interplay between humans as objects and objects as objects.
Unsupported Transit	Zachary Formwalt	Nederland	2011	14’
A guide to navigating in the world.
The Immigrant	Charlie Chaplin	Verenigde Staten	1917	20’
Inventive and charming. Was made when Chaplin was the highest paid actor in the world. Got him in trouble 35 years later during the second Red Scare in the US...
Entr'acte	René Clair	Frankrijk	1924	20’
Virtuosic and inventive collaboration of Picabia, Clair, Satie, Man Ray, Duchamp and more is a Dadaist masterpiece
Confessions	Roee Rosen	Israël	2008	57’
The first person narrator voice distributed and disembodied.
Beyond Guilt	Ruti Sela, Maayan Amir	Israël	2005	42’
A trilogy on sexuality and violence playing out power relations around the camera