Taryn Joffe

Taryn Joffe 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 Taryn Joffe:

This inaugural poll celebrates short films as one of cinema’s most versatile and adventurous forms—a space where experimentation, emotion and invention converge in concentrated brilliance. Shorts may test the limits of imagination and narrative, rhythm, and image. By inviting a collective reflection on the “greatest” works under sixty minutes, this poll honours the short film as a foundation of filmmaking: a medium that continues to redefine what cinema can be, one bold, distilled viewing experience at a time.

— Taryn Joffe

Movie	Original Title	Director	Country	Year
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story	Todd Haynes	Verenigde Staten	1987	43’

Scorpio Rising	Kenneth Anger	Verenigde Staten	1964	27’

Ferdinand the Bull	Dick Rickard	Verenigde Staten	1938	7’
A Walt Disney Productions short film, directed by Dick Rickard, is a hand-drawn classic that tells the story of a gentle bull who prefers flowers to fighting. Its luminous animation and pacifist message made it an early moral landmark for Disney—a timeless ode to nonconformity, empathy, and peace disguised as a children’s tale.
Reality+	Coralie Fargeat	Frankrijk	2014	22’
A sleek, dystopian satire about a future where beauty is bought, not born. Coralie Fargeat’s razor-sharp direction turns cosmetic enhancement into existential horror, blending Black Mirror-like social critique with the seductive sheen of fashion advertising. It’s an early glimpse of her fascination with transformation - physical, psychological and moral - that would later explode in The Substance.
Fleas Amazeze	Jordy Sank	Zuid-Afrika	2025	15’
Jordy Sank’s visceral short film captures a Zimbabwean boy’s day of peril during xenophobic unrest in Johannesburg. The camera’s unblinking gaze turns realism into urgency, while its intimacy humanises an often abstracted crisis. It’s a film of breathless momentum and quiet dignity - proof that courage and craft can coexist in the same frame.
Fauve	Jérémy Comte	Canada	2018	17’
Two boys play by a quarry, and their folly turns into tragedy. Jérémy Comte’s stark, sun-bleached fable confronts the chaos of childhood and the brutality of innocence lost. With echoes of Lord of the Flies and the raw minimalism of early De Sica, Fauve captures the moment when play becomes peril - and youth gives way to consequence.
World of Tomorrow	Don Hertzfeldt	Verenigde Staten	2015	17’
A stick-figure odyssey through memory, love and the melancholy of progress. Don Hertzfeldt compresses the cosmic and the intimate into sixteen transformative minutes, as a child meets her future clone and contemplates mortality through the lens of wonder. Poignant, philosophical and quietly devastating - this is animation as pure poetry of the human condition.
Le Ballon rouge The Red Balloon	Albert Lamorisse	Frankrijk	1956	34’
A floating red balloon drifts through the grey streets of Paris, chasing and being chased by childhood wonder. Albert Lamorisse’s poetic fable is simplicity perfected - wordless, wistful and impossibly alive. It remains one of cinema’s purest metaphors for innocence and imagination: gravity-defying, heart-lifting and eternal.
Skin	Guy Nattiv	Verenigde Staten	2018	20’
A taut, brutal parable about hate and redemption, where a neo-Nazi’s violent world unravels in a twist of poetic justice. Guy Nattiv’s storytelling burns with moral clarity and cinematic precision, distilling the anatomy of prejudice. It’s shocking, empathetic and unforgettable, and proof that brevity can amplify impact.
Stutterer	Benjamin Cleary	Ierland, Verenigd Koninkrijk	2015	12’
A tender study of voice, vulnerability and the yearning to connect. Benjamin Cleary crafts a quiet, humane portrait of a man trapped between eloquence and fear, language and silence. Every hesitation feels like a heartbeat. This Oscar award-winning short film is about communication that says everything through what’s left unsaid.