Kim Torres

Kim Torres 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 Kim Torres:

Movie Original Title Director Country Year Duration
The Bread and Alley نان و کوچه‎‎ Abbas Kiarostami Iran 1970 12’
Flores Flores Jorge Jácome Portugal 2017 26’
Disintegration 93-96 Miko Revereza Verenigde Staten 2017 6’

Six intense and complex minutes that made me feel so much. Miko’s voice —melancholic and forceful, severe yet loving— becomes a lullaby that carries us through the images of the family archive. There are huge ideas packed into a short time (migration, emotional colonization, the projection of happiness and how a family’s history is recorded, love-hate toward one’s parents), and somehow it works incredibly well that way, leaving us breathless until the final moment when the film’s title appears.
Passing Time Terence Davies België, Verenigd Koninkrijk 2023 3’

In a single shot, reading a poem against a landscape near his home, Terence renders a most beautiful good-bye. "There is a place called silence" he says, "where no hope or harm can be."
The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins Les Blank, Skip Gerson Verenigde Staten 1968 31’
One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train Cien niños esperando un tren Ignacio Agüero Chili, Verenigd Koninkrijk 1988 57’
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee จดหมายถึงลุงบุญมี Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand, Duitsland, Verenigd Koninkrijk 2009 18’

A delicate piece that gently weaves political memory and the memory of spirits.
He Who Eats Children Ben Russell Verenigde Staten, Suriname 2016 25’
The Zerda or the Songs of Forgetting La Zerda ou les chants de l'oubli Assia Djebar Algerije 1983 57’
La Sortie de l’usine Lumière à Lyon Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory Louis Lumière Frankrijk 1895 1’