From my experience: around 1 minute.
The French Gobelins School of Visual Communication is well-known for its animation department. They produce shorts popular throughout the Internet because of their involving action and quality animation - many of which are only one minute long. The only flaw worth mentioning is that they're often too short, and thus too rushed to develop tension and tone through the piece.
MY FAVORITES (with links)
Fenrir - Quick plot: a mythical wolf escapes its eternal prison and tries to devour the sun. Excellent job simplifying the story into less than one minute of action, although the rapid pace leaves too little focus on the fantastical imagery or tension.
Le Lac Gele - A quiet, metaphorical short, with luminous creatures in a frozen landscape. Beauteous but once again, a little too rushed to for the viewer to take everything in.
Garuda - It concerns the universal: growing up. But the theme metamorphoses into something new with otherworldy imagery.
In Between - Not all of Gobelins' shorts are 1 minute long. This one is thrice that length, and the pacing is just right. Told with heart and humor, here is a tale wherein a woman faces her crocodile.
Copernicus - Copernicus has a vision of a new cosmological order.
Trois Petits Points - Innovative story of WWII; it's easier to be monstrous than not.
Rating: These innovative shorts range from 3 to 4 stars on the point scale - great job, Gobelins!
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