This Will Take You Exactly Seven Hours to Complete
By: Crtny Smth
Here are 62 of my favorite short films (that I’ve seen so far, anyway). They’re in no particular order, but of course I like some more than others. I compiled this list simply to organize my own short film experience and maybe create a starting point for someone who wants to watch some good shorts right away. Sorry if some of the videos no longer exist – I’ll try as hard as I can to keep up with them.
Wind Along the Coast by Ivan Maximov / Maksimov, 2003
Maximov created a computer game called Full Pipe – Here’s a walkthrough. His only other short film on MUBI is Bolero, but I would recommend also seeing From Left to Right.
Jumping by Osamu Tezuka, 1984
Tezuka has been considered the Japanese Walt Disney and credited as the “Godfather of Anime”. There is a museum just for him – The Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum, located in Takarazuka, Japan. It celebrates his achievements and creations (shows his short films and has exhibitions of his original artwork). If the entirety of his Manga creations were lumped together, the book would have well over 150,000 pages (although inaccessible to those who do not speak Japanese).
Conflict by Garri Bardin, 1983
See also: Banket and Break!
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Swinging the Lambeth Walk
The Fly
Ghosts Before Breakfast
The Apartment Cat
Multiple Sidosis
Sid Laverents began making films at home when he was 50. Multiple Sidosis is one of the few amateur films to be to be included in the Nation Film Registry. “Worried that his health might prevent him from attending a party celebrating his 100th birthday, he prepared an apology video in advance, but was ultimately able to attend.” Sid Laverents wrote two books – an autobiography and a novel about a horrible 1929 flood in Elba, Alabama.
Danse Serpentine
Bottle
The Tell-Tale Heart
Gertie the Dinosaur
The Colour Box
Fantasmagorie
Walking
Virile Games
The Big Snit
Gerald McBoing Boing
Bambi Meets Godzilla
Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou
The Last Trick
Couldn’t manage to embed this one. This’ll have to do.
Mickey’s Garden
Marcel, The Shell with Shoes On
Rejected
The Gallopin’ Gaucho
Excelsior! Prince of Magicians
Necrology
The Untamable Whiskers
The Four Troublesome Heads
Uncle
Brother
Cousin
Darkness/Light/Darkness
Cartoon Factory
Gumbasia
Creature Comforts
Sorry, this one couldn’t be embedded. More work for you!
Lullaby Land
The Skeleton Dance
Clock Cleaners
Northwest Hounded Police
I Love to Singa
Who Killed Who?
Porky in Wackyland
I couldn’t get this one to embed either. Bummer.
Duck Amuck
Rabbit of Seville
One Froggy Evening
Hedgehog in the Fog
Food
Junkopia
Arrival of a Train
Dimensions of Dialogue
Western Spaghetti
Vinni-Pukh
Island
More
The Cat Came Back
The Man with the Rubber Head
Puce Moment
The Big Shave
Begone Dull Care
Trip to the Moon
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01Ivan Maximov
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02Osamu Tezuka
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03Garri Bardin
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04Marie Menken
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05Len Lye
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06Ferenc Rófusz
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07Hans Richter
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08Sarah Roper
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09Sid Laverents
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10Auguste Lumière
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11Kirsten Lepore
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12Ted Parmelee
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13Winsor McCay
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14Len Lye
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15Émile Cohl
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16Ryan Larkin
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17Jan Švankmajer
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18Richard Condie
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19Robert Cannon
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20Marv Newland
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21Agnès Varda
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22Jan Švankmajer
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23Wilfred Jackson
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24Dean Fleischer-Camp
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25Don Hertzfeldt
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26Walt Disney
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27Georges Méliès
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28Standish Lawder
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29Georges Méliès
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30Georges Méliès
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31Adam Elliot
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32Adam Elliot
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33Adam Elliot
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34Jan Švankmajer
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35Dave Fleischer
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36Art Clokey
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37Nick Park
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38Wilfred Jackson
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39Walt Disney
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40Ben Sharpsteen
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41Tex Avery
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42Tex Avery
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43Tex Avery
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44Robert Clampett
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45Chuck Jones
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46Chuck Jones
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47Chuck Jones
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48Yuriy Norshteyn
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49Jan Švankmajer
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50Chris Marker
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51Auguste Lumière
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52Jan Švankmajer
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53PES
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54Fyodor Khitruk
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55Fyodor Khitruk
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56Mark Osborne
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57Cordell Barker
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58Georges Méliès
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59Kenneth Anger
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60Martin Scorsese
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61Evelyn Lambart
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62Georges Méliès
