Favorite Shorts of 2015

Not included: World of Tomorrow, which transcended the shorts category and made the main list, and all the Chaplin and Plympton I watched, which got their own section.

Top ten, chronologically:

The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918, Winsor McCay)
Trade Tattoo (1937, Len Lye)
Portrait d’Henri Goetz (1947, Alain Resnais)
Closed Mondays (1974, Will Vinton & Bob Gardiner)
Zerox and Mylar (1995, Joel Brinkerhoff)
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2000, Paul Driessen)
The Skywalk Is Gone (2002, Tsai Ming-Liang)
Winnipegiana (2014, Evan Johnson)
Deloused (2014, Robert Morgan)
Fears (2015, Nata Metlukh)

Runners-up:

Night Mail (1936, Harry Watt & Basil Wright)
Temptation of Mr. Prokouk (1947, Karel Zeman)
Uncle (1959, Jaromil Jires)
Game of the Angels (1964, Walerian Borowczyk)
Only Dream Things (2012, Guy Maddin)
A Single Life (2014, Blaauw & Oprins & Roggeveen )
The Dam Keeper (2014, Robert Kondo & Daisuke Tsutsumi)
Feast (2014, Patrick Osborne)