HK's Top 25 Shorts
By: H. K. ‡

Missing from database:
N-Zone (1970, Arthur Lipsett)

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The Karen Carpenter Story
Last Hunt
Passage
July
Meshes of the Afternoon
Where Evil Dwells
Unsere Afrikareise
Kara: Daughter of the Tree
The Skywalk is gone
Go! Go! Go!
Hedgehog in the Fog
Factory
Atman (Scroll down)
Je Vous Salue Sarajevo
The House is Black
Peyote Queen
Wavelength
The Book of Mary
Reassemblage
Not all are available streaming online. I may try to remedy this in the future. If you have the link for one that’s not included, I’d appreciate a tip.

More directors of shorts I admire:
Matthew Barney Cremaster 1
Stan Brakhage Black Ice // Water for Maya
JP Carpio
Thomas Draschan
Cheryl Dunye The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye DVD (None available to watch online.)
Carlo Labrador-Pangalangan
Arthur Lipsett
Willard Maas
James Maki
Gregory Markopoulos Christmas U.S.A. // Sorrows
Norman McLaren Neighbours // Pas De Deux
Phil Solomon Psalm III: ‘Night of the Meek’
Sam Spreckley
Jan Švankmajer Darkness/Light/Darkness // Meat Love
Margaret Tait A Portrait of GA // Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait
Peter Tscherkassky Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine // Outer Space
Frans Zwartjes

Not Ranked. Complaints and criticisms welcome, as always. Suggestions requested.

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01Bruce Conner
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02Todd Haynes
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03Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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04Valentin Karavaev
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05Shirin Neshat
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06Darezhan Omirbaev
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07Maya Deren
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08David Wojnarowicz
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09Peter Kubelka
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10Kelly Reichardt
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11Edwin
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12Tsai Ming-liang
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13Marie Menken
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14Yuriy Norshteyn
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15Sergei Loznitsa
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16Péter Forgács
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17Toshio Matsumoto
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18Jean-Luc Godard
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19Forugh Farrokhzad
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20Storm De Hirsch
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21Michael Snow
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22Anne-Marie Miéville
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23Trinh T. Minh-ha
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24Ernie Gehr