Helena Wittmann

Filmmaker
Germany

Voted for

FilmYearDirector
Tropical Malady2004Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Le Tempestaire1947Jean Epstein
D'EST1993Chantal Akerman
Au hasard Balthazar1966Robert Bresson
Where Is the Friend's House?1987Abbas Kiarostami
Sans soleil1982Chris Marker
The Green Ray1986Eric Rohmer
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1975Chantal Akerman
Rizi2020Tsai Ming-Liang
Meshes of the Afternoon1943Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied

Comments

The answer to your request is of course impossible. I have no notion of "All Time" and speaking of "The Greatest" frightens me. I still wanted to try and answer your request, to try and face the contradictions. I felt it would have been too easy and comfortable to just evade.

My choices are brief moments in all time, important moments to me, next to a myriad more. Except for one film in the list, I have watched each of them at least two times and I know I will watch all of them again. All these films echo into my life, they stay with me. And I know they echo into other lives as well. After all, it is great to meet through films.