Karen’s ghost can be felt, and Superstar’s underground legacy is impossible to shake off.Īlexander Hammid had worked on a few films by the time his then-wife Maya Deren had come up with her first cinematic project: Meshes of the Afternoon. Considering its copyright issues and dismal nature that most services wouldn’t want to come anywhere near, Superstar is now passed around online, and each upload diminishes the quality of the film even more so. Told entirely with Barbie dolls, and shot with the lowest quality equipment possible (which gives the film this uncomfortable feeling in 2021, especially considering its deterioration), Superstar is an inventive approach to tackling a serious topic that no Hollywood studio would be allowed to share. Karen Carpenter’s tragic passing from cardiac arrest (caused by her struggles with anorexia nervosa) was already grim, but there was a new perspective surrounding her entire career and death after Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Todd Haynes’ first project ever is an independent film opus of epic proportions, which ushered in the second age of, well, The Carpenters. Here are the best one hundred short films of all time. Nonetheless, whether these works are strange, normal, illustrated, vérité, concise or expansive, they are all incredible, and worthy of being spotlighted for a multitude of reasons. Avant-garde filmmakers could really create their own worlds in these shorts, and you’ll find that many of their results are impossible to ignore. What I will say is that you will find some great short stories, animated blips, or short subject documentaries, but you will also see that this list will contain the most amounts of experimental works out of any that I have written. As long as these films are forty minutes or less, they can apply here. I didn’t include shorts in any of my other lists, so all sorts of works will be here. Live action, animation, and documentary shorts will all be found here. I also won’t have anything before 1920 here, since those have been covered in my list of one hundred important early films (anything from 1878 to 1919), but rest assured that you will find some silent classics here. I have covered “featurettes” - an older term used for the films in between shorts (one to two reels) and features (five or more) from the early days of cinema - in my ‘30s list, so you won’t find the films that made that list here. What is that duration, you may ask? Well, different institutions, companies, critics, and academics will have their own specifications, but I follow the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science rules: any work that is forty minutes or less constitutes as a short film, and anything longer is a feature. Short films have their own forms of constraint: you have to attract viewers, get points across, and have all ideas come to fruition in a limited amount of time. I’m going to cover other aspects of film in additional top one hundred lists, but the very final list that will analyze actual films as a whole is this one here.
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