Celldweller7's Top 250 Favorite Short Films of All Time

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Celldweller7's Top 250 Favorite Short Films of All Time
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
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1083 Un Chien Andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel NR -
1706 A Trip to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès NR -
544 La jetée 1962 Chris Marker NR -
1560 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid NR -
16606 Outer Space 2000 Peter Tscherkassky NR -
22453 79 Primaveras 1969 Santiago Álvarez NR -
5034 Ménilmontant 1926 Dimitri Kirsanoff NR -
6924 Tale of Tales 1979 Yuriy Norshteyn NR -
6933 Patriotism 1966 Masaki Dômoto, Yukio Mishima NR -
71377 Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 2016 Frank Stiefel NR -
7068 The Seashell and the Clergyman 1928 Germaine Dulac NR -
2354 Vincent 1982 Tim Burton NR -
37475 Madonna and Child 1980 Terence Davies NR -
42646 Death and Transfiguration 1983 Terence Davies NR -
19490 Tango 1981 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
7086 At Land 1944 Maya Deren NR -
23565 De artificiali perspectiva or Anamorphosis 1991 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
5924 The House is Black 1963 Forugh Farrokhzad NR -
14544 The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer 1984 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
9989 Paris Asleep 1925 René Clair NR -
11534 Daybreak Express 1953 D.A. Pennebaker NR -
61702 Negative Space 2017 Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter NR -
4754 Frankenweenie 1984 Tim Burton PG -
33717 Hamfat Asar 1965 Larry Jordan NR -
12020 Mothlight 1963 Stan Brakhage NR -
14695 Isle of Flowers 1989 Jorge Furtado NR -
1924 Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers 1993 Nick Park NR -
8569 The Heart of the World 2000 Guy Maddin NR -
46707 Process Red 1966 Hollis Frampton NR -
22661 The Garden 1968 Jan Svankmajer NR -
55113 The Swan 2023 Wes Anderson PG -
75055 The Burden 2017 Niki Lindroth von Bahr NR -
7415 A Song of Love 1950 Jean Genet NR -
32413 Jumping 1984 Osamu Tezuka NR -
4565 Rejected 2000 Don Hertzfeldt NR -
6094 The Grandmother 1970 David Lynch NR -
12736 The Flat 1968 Jan Svankmajer NR -
67305 Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mutter Museum 2011 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
9396 Lucifer Rising 1972 Kenneth Anger NR -
41082 Pink Swine! 1963 Larry Jordan NR -
23877 In Absentia 2000 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
28880 Fresh Guacamole 2012 PES NR -
2668 Cops 1922 Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline NR -
1521 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse NR -
43173 World of Glory 1992 Roy Andersson NR -
14003 A Movie 1958 Bruce Conner NR -
1469 One Week 1920 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
3122 The Scarecrow 1920 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
16790 Child of the Big City 1914 Yevgeni Bauer NR -
39437 Father and Daughter 2000 Michael Dudok de Wit NR -
37327 Madame Tutli-Putli 2007 Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski NR -
10203 Solar Eclipse 1900 John Nevil Maskelyne NR -
89357 Affairs of the Art 2021 Joanna Quinn NR -
20711 Diary of a Pregnant Woman 1958 Agnès Varda NR -
3747 The Goat 1921 Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair NR -
23934 Cosmic Ray 1962 Bruce Conner NR -
43441 Permutations 1968 John Whitney Sr. NR -
35904 Di Cavalcanti 1977 Glauber Rocha NR -
22545 The Meaning of Life 2005 Don Hertzfeldt NR -
6537 Bluebeard 1901 Georges Méliès NR -
42359 Wild Gunman 1978 Craig Baldwin NR -
10050 The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023 Wes Anderson PG -
83724 Opal 2020 Jack Stauber NR -
47682 Perfect Film 1986 Ken Jacobs NR -
4641 Convict 13 1920 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
78856 The Long Goodbye 2020 Aneil Karia NR -
86558 Souvenir, Souvenir 2020 Bastien Dubois NR -
4061 World of Tomorrow 2015 Don Hertzfeldt NR -
5923 Suspense 1913 Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber NR -
19635 Punch and Judy 1966 Jan Svankmajer NR -
6203 The House of the Devil 1896 Georges Méliès NR -
38236 Soup 1975 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
1148 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones NR -
47514 The Monk and the Fish 1994 Michael Dudok de Wit NR -
54645 Topless Cellist 1995 Nam June Paik, Howard Weinberg NR -
10268 Mabel's Strange Predicament 1914 Mabel Normand NR -
4965 The Cameraman's Revenge 1912 Wladyslaw Starewicz NR -
76215 Sister 2018 Siqi Song NR -
41216 Take Off 1972 Gunvor Nelson NR -
9079 Life of an American Fireman 1903 Edwin S. Porter NR -
77785 Oh Lucy! 2014 Atsuko Hirayanagi NR -
28983 Meat Love 1988 Jan Svankmajer NR -
5061 The Snowman 1982 Dianne Jackson, Jimmy T. Murakami NR -
4080 The 'High Sign' 1921 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
5313 The Play House 1921 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
88495 You're Dead Hélène 2021 Michiel Blanchart NR -
39625 Magritte or the Object Lesson 1960 Luc de Heusch NR -
80934 Edith+Eddie 2017 Laura Checkoway NR -
5388 Neighbors 1920 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
3260 The Haunted House 1921 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
88227 A Broken House 2020 Jimmy Goldblum NR -
41371 Working Women 1978 Piotr Szulkin NR -
30341 Maxwell's Demon 1968 Hollis Frampton NR -
22599 A Légy 1981 Ferenc Rófusz NR -
76030 Submarine Sandwich 2014 PES NR -
19877 Wedlock House: An Intercourse 1959 Stan Brakhage NR -
62998 West Bank Story 2005 Ari Sandel NR -
6709 Tunneling the Channel 1907 Georges Méliès NR -
6834 Street of Crocodiles 1986 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
12610 Invocation of My Demon Brother 1969 Kenneth Anger NR -
73067 Ticket 2011 Ferenc Rofusz NR -
25366 Your Face 1987 Bill Plympton NR -
88435 Step Into the River 2020 Weijia Ma NR -
69311 Knife Skills 2017 Thomas Lennon NR -
6066 Fireworks 1947 Kenneth Anger NR -
28758 Letzte Worte 1968 Werner Herzog NR -
8219 Hotel Chevalier 2007 Wes Anderson R -
52938 Imagine 1987 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
32075 Duo Concertantes 1964 Larry Jordan NR -
75799 The Deep Dark 2013 Laura Heit NR -
20435 The Gruffalo 2009 Max Lang, Jakob Schuh G -
13357 Going to Bed Under Difficulties 1900 Georges Méliès NR -
5612 Ballet Mécanique 1924 Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy NR -
22111 Happy Anniversary 1962 Jean-Claude Carrière, Pierre Étaix NR -
4527 An Impossible Voyage 1904 Georges Méliès NR -
14579 The Critic 1963 Ernest Pintoff NR -
16592 Premonitions Following an Evil Deed 1996 David Lynch NR -
33592 A Portrait of Ga 1952 Margaret Tait NR -
18142 The Comb 1991 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
12180 Taris 1931 Jean Vigo NR -
2613 A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit 1989 Nick Park NR -
1553 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones NR -
4106 The Boat 1921 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
61088 Maska 2010 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
39483 Serene Velocity 1970 Ernie Gehr NR -
73360 The Neighbors' Window 2019 Marshall Curry NR -
42596 Stellar 1993 Stan Brakhage NR -
83575 Walk Run Cha Cha 2019 Laura Nix NR -
6371 La Luna 2011 Enrico Casarosa NR -
44156 Media 1980 Zbigniew Rybcznski NR -
18930 Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse, or This Unnamable Little Broom 1985 Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
58656 The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection 2003 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
68638 Out of Sight 2010 Ya-Ting Yu NR -
79546 An Object at Rest 2015 Seth Boyden NR -
7230 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 1954 Kenneth Anger NR -
11525 Lava 2015 James Ford Murphy G -
42146 My Window 1979 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
6906 Piper 2016 Alan Barillaro G -
65052 Game Over 2006 PES NR -
19142 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies 1987 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
33720 Sisyphus 1974 Marcell Jankovics NR -
60840 Ceasefire! 2003 Ferenc Rófusz NR -
7225 The Sealed Room 1909 D.W. Griffith NR -
70472 Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No 2010 James Blagden NR -
8128 Cendrillon 1899 Georges Méliès NR -
1600 A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 Bill Melendez G -
59708 KaBoom! 2004 PES NR -
47234 Gravity 1984 Ferenc Rofusz NR -
11679 Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946 Maya Deren NR -
11275 The Little Match Seller 1902 James Williamson NR -
22820 Women Reply 1975 Agnès Varda NR -
39421 Hair Love 2019 Matthew A. Cherry, Everett Downing Jr., Bruce W. Smith G -
46625 The Calligrapher 1991 Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay NR -
3487 Bottle Rocket 1994 Wes Anderson NR -
3162 Seven Up! 1964 Paul Almond NR -
48132 The Fourth Dimension 1988 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
43091 Room on the Broom 2012 Jan Lachauer, Max Lang NR -
13537 Toute la mémoire du monde 1956 Alain Resnais NR -
5562 Hard Luck 1921 Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton NR -
60829 Western Spaghetti 2008 PES NR -
8264 Take a Chance 1918 Alfred J. Goulding NR -
72059 The Deep 2010 PES NR -
76031 Black Gold 2014 PES NR -
63162 God Is The Bigger Elvis 2011 Rebecca Cammisa NR -
8290 Dream of a Rarebit Fiend 1906 Edwin S. Porter NR -
9747 Opus I 1921 Walter Ruttmann NR -
52744 Dogs of War 2000 PES NR -
6150 Falling Leaves 1912 Alice Guy NR -
43161 New Book 1976 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
82858 A Short History 2017 Erica Sheu NR -
73433 A Single Life 2014 Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins NR -
52954 Poison 2023 Wes Anderson PG -
6860 The Sign of the Cross 1899 Georges Méliès NR -
21965 So You Want to Be a Detective 1948 Richard L. Bare NR -
35585 UFO's 1972 Ken Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz NR -
48202 Superman 75 2013 Zack Snyder NR -
7467 Rescued by Rover 1905 Lewin Fitzhamon, Cecil M. Hepworth NR -
6008 Entr'acte 1924 René Clair NR -
78496 Bilby 2018 Pierre Perifel G -
24866 Photographing a Female Crook 1904 Edwin S. Porter NR -
4868 The Old Mill 1937 Wilfred Jackson NR -
7519 The Delights of Automobiling 1900 Cecil M. Hepworth NR -
65154 The Aroma of Tea 2006 Michael Dudok de Wit NR -
20086 The Little Match Girl 1937 Arthur Davis NR -
26526 The Finish of Bridget McKeen 1901 Edwin S. Porter NR -
25125 Historia Naturae, Suita 1967 Jan Svankmajer NR -
41566 Take Five 1972 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
22064 How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns 1904 Edwin S. Porter NR -
65622 Thunder Road 2016 Jim Cummings NR -
23216 The Old Mill Pond 1936 Unknown NR -
39925 Portrait of Sharon 1963 Larry Jordan NR -
45119 Square 1972 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
14357 The Last Trick 1964 Jan Svankmajer NR -
40817 Holiday 1975 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
22243 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasia G-moll 1965 Jan Svankmajer NR -
10467 Canned Harmony 1912 Alice Guy NR -
24252 Riley's First Date? 2015 Josh Cooley G -
7505 Manhatta 1921 Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand NR -
6382 The ‘?’ Motorist 1906 Walter R. Booth NR -
6391 The Insects' Christmas 1913 Wladyslaw Starewicz NR -
5252 Frankenstein 1910 J. Searle Dawley NR -
16348 Beau Hunks 1931 James. W Horne NR -
22084 Blow Up My Town 1968 Chantal Akerman NR -
4959 Scorpio Rising 1964 Kenneth Anger NR -
54117 The Maker 2011 Christopher Kezelos NR -
22673 The Devil's Dance 1904 Gaston Velle NR -
5835 The 400 Tricks of the Devil 1906 Georges Méliès NR -
7699 A Corner in Wheat 1909 D.W. Griffith NR -
6149 The Fat and the Lean Wrestling Match 1901 Georges Méliès NR -
31177 Mandala 1953 Jordan Belson NR -
20286 Fire! 1901 James Williamson NR -
19574 Desistfilm 1954 Stan Brakhage NR -
21358 Cat's Cradle 1959 Stan Brakhage NR -
24867 The Doll's Revenge 1907 Cecil M. Hepworth NR -
78663 Seventh Grade 2014 Stefani Saintonge NR -
8525 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1902 Ferdinand Zecca NR -
84273 Fucked Like a Star 2018 Stefani Saintonge NR -
7916 The Infernal Cakewalk 1903 Georges Méliès NR -
40560 Weg zum nachbarn 1976 Zbigniew Rybczynski NR -
17079 Vive le tour 1962 Louis Malle NR -
88504 Eagles 2021 Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre NR -
18935 Mr. Jones at the Ball 1908 D.W. Griffith NR -
9703 The Battle of San Pietro 1945 John Huston NR -
23595 Don Quichotte 1903 Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet NR -
87620 Bad Seeds 2021 Claude Cloutier NR -
17737 Lines of White on a Sullen Sea 1909 D.W. Griffith NR -
10052 The Curtain Pole 1909 D.W. Griffth NR -
7465 The Musketeers of Pig Alley 1912 D.W. Griffith NR -
89781 Requiem 2021 Em J. Gilbertson NR -
20752 Turn-of-the-Century Surgery 1900 Alice Guy NR -
18741 Metamorphosis of a Butterfly 1904 Gaston Velle NR -
29910 The Wormwood Star 1956 Curtis Harrington NR -
21428 Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist 1903 Oskar Messter NR -
17191 A Panicky Picnic 1909 Segundo de Chomón NR -
7954 The Country Doctor 1909 D.W. Griffith NR -
37607 Werner Herzog Filmemacher 1986 Werner Herzog NR -
8337 The Lonely Villa 1909 D.W. Griffith NR -
11361 In the Border States 1910 D.W. Griffith NR -
26824 Japanese Varieties 1904 Gaston Velle NR -
21369 A Daring Daylight Burglary 1903 Frank S. Mottershaw NR -
15913 Moscow Clad in Snow 1909 Joseph-Louis Mundwiller NR -
74279 River Rites 2011 Ben Russell NR -
88581 Flowing Home 2021 Sandra Desmazières NR -
10669 La Soufrière 1977 Werner Herzog NR -
7689 The Witch 1906 Georges Méliès NR -
7597 Creature Comforts 1989 Nick Park NR -
6816 The Devilish Tenant 1909 Georges Méliès NR -
8863 The Lonedale Operator 1911 D.W. Griffith NR -
27425 Max Takes a Bath 1910 Lucien Nonguet NR -
17518 A Trap for Santa Claus 1909 D.W. Griffith NR -

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