»As an alternative to mobility-focused cosmopolitanism, The One Minutes Series The Power of Transparency offers a form of localized cosmopolitanism that creates connectedness by engaging with local communities and by emphasizing the multiple localities to which the identities of its cosmopolitan participants are tied.« Jori Snels, Virtual connectedness in times of crisis, Taylor and Francis Online, 1 December 2021
»The special thing about The One Minutes is that over the years it has produced an ever-growing kaleidoscope of views and possibilities. That is the charm. A magnificent database, in which any moving image maker can browse until he can no longer see the trees through the forest.« Rutger Pontzen, Kunstwerk v/d week, de Volkskrant, 18 March 2021
»Op hun mobieltjes kunnen voorbijgangers onder meer de vele 1-minuutfilms zien die als artistieke interpunctie door het programma zijn gestrooid.« Edo Dijksterhuis, Actie voor W139: 8 uur in de etalage voor kunst, Het Parool, 13 February, 2021
»The One Minutes rocks.« Annie Sprinkle, 30 October 2020
»The idea in general of curating a series of One Minute videos is a lovely idea. The quick nature of the videos means that they’re all fairly wasky or experimental; kind of like the equivalent of a video sketch.« Artists and Friends, 4 May 2020
»The One Minutes has published a 2015 series from Shana Moulton on Instagram. She is an artist who deals with anxiety, both in the domestic atmosphere and worldwide, which makes it very relevant and beautiful. She has asked a number of artists to make work on healing.« Zippora Elders, Young Stedelijk, 6 April 2020
»For The One Minutes, a minute is not a conceptual limitation of time, but the beginning of a new world, starting from a minute to discover and explore the infinite possibilities of video art, life and world.« Wei Shaonong, 刹那即永恒 - One Minute is Eternal, 2019
»Ten years ago, when The One Minutes was first introduced in China, it won the favor of the industry for its academic and experimental nature, and became the cradle of Chinese video art. Now, 10 years later, one-minute video gradually enters the public’s horizon, and provides a platform for more people with artistic dreams to express and create freely.« Wu Xiang, Xinmin Evening News, 11-11-2019
»At the entrance of the exhibition, a video wall is created, which plays 20 trailers of One Minute Series, like a kaleidoscope. These TVs symbolize the world we see.«
One Minute Video 20th Anniversary special exhibition debut in Nanjing Art Museum, PeopleArt, 29-10-2018
»It’s like Keeping up with the Cyborgs in full HD.«
Face the future of intimacy with Next Nature Network, Glamcult, 13-09-2017
»Hoe is het leven van een jonge vluchteling in Brabant? Hoe gaan Chinese meisjes om met de constante druk om elegant en vrouwelijk te zijn? Wat is de invloed van oorlog op het dagelijks leven in Oekraïne? Sinds 2002 reizen filmmakers in het kader van het The One Minutes-project de aardbol rond om samen met kinderen een antwoord op deze vragen te vinden.«
Floor Bouma, Kijken: kinderlevens wereldwijd, verteld in één minuut, NRC 24-11-2017
»The combined authorship of Mills’s work simultaneously speaks to the collaboration born of multidisciplinary work, and an underlying notion that cinematic work is inherently collaborative—a comforting notion given that social isolation and atomization that has come to pervade the contemporary world.«
Charlene K. Lau, Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016, Brooklyn Rail, 06-12-2016
»Video artist Melanie Bonajo presenteerde een ideale avond t.g.v. haar werk op de Tentoonstelling: Close-Up – A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands. Ze toonde krankzinnige 1 minuutsfilmpjes, maar ook een episode uit Kwaidan van Masaki Kobayashi. (Uit 1964, vergeten, maar niet door mij. Wat een film!).«
Joyce Roodnat, 04-05-2016
»Het neusje van de zalm van de online kunst.«
Joost Broeren, ‘Digitale Mixtape’ Plukdenacht.nl, 21-04-2015
»Something is happening to culture; we really have to name that thing. ‘Ways of Something’, in its way, contributes to that collective project, as a remake that points to a sequel that still needs to be made.«
Ben Davis, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of… Something’, Artnet.com, 17-10-2014
»Art crossing all boundaries is a ‘bon mot’ that is only rarely true. There are waterproof walls between different cultural entities. Art of international meaning is defined and driven by the West and its welfare. The One Minutes is the only initiative in the Netherlands that does not exclude any region. The One Minutes challenges artists all over the world to participate. The One Minutes is truly democratic. The One Minutes has its own rules of the game creating a framework for absolute and exuberant freedom.«
Tineke Reijnders, Parkett, 2004