Films form, and short films form faster. Hilmar Hoffmann must have seen it something like this when he founded the West German Short Film Festival in 1954, which later became the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. At the time, Hoffmann was director of the Oberhausen Adult Education Center, and films had an educational mission. In the years that followed, the answer to the question: “Why short film?” was Alain Resnais, who in 1956 showed the horror of the German extermination camps in just half an hour in “Night and Fog”.
70 years of Oberhausen Short Film Festival: the first cigarette culture
