HK's Top 25 Shorts
By: H. K. ‡

Finally in the 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
E. Elias Merhige Din of Celestial Birds
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, criticisms and suggestions welcome.

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01Arthur Lipsett
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02Bruce Conner
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03Todd Haynes
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04Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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05Valentin Karavaev
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06Shirin Neshat
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07Darezhan Omirbaev
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08Maya Deren
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09David Wojnarowicz
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10Peter Kubelka
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11Kelly Reichardt
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12Edwin
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13Tsai Ming-liang
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14Marie Menken
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15Yuriy Norshteyn
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16Sergei Loznitsa
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17Péter Forgács
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18Toshio Matsumoto
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19Jean-Luc Godard
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20Forugh Farrokhzad
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21Storm De Hirsch
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22Michael Snow
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23Anne-Marie Miéville
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24Trinh T. Minh-ha
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25Ernie Gehr