Werner Nekes Movies

The film is divided into five parts differing in pictorial and musical structure. The plot, two women and their love for one another, is of secondary...

In “jüm-jüm” by Dore 0. and Werner Nekes, a girl swings for 10 minutes in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a...

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

"KELEK belongs to the 'structural' or 'minimal' cinema movement in that its content is subordinated to the viewer's perception and has no intrinsic...

"...Nekes retreats behind his film. What is left is a double portrait, in which neither Dore 0. nor the grand landscape remain unchanged. The cold of...

The film looks at ways of creating spezial illusions through amiguous images, perspective theatres, folding peepshows and from the 19th century, the...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

According to the director, "Memory is a cruel hope without awakening."

The film traces the history of the camera obscura, the understanding of perspective and anamorphosis, peepshows and it shows the beauty of historical...

Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and the...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

An experimental film where a particular space is constantly "present" : there is a complex usage of superim- position, and of split-screen effects....

A female figure wanders inside a warehouse interior and through various motifs, including a fan and a birdcage, set to a medieval chant.

This film, conceived for an "oral culture" shows cows on a pasture in Northern Germany in one single shot. With interruptions, the cows seem to...

Hynningen (Swedish for ‘honey roof’) begins with long multiple exposures of a landscape with a clearing, opening up to the horizon.

The history of the magic lantern with demonstrations of moving slides, watertank or polarisation slides, followed by images on paper, which are...

The film is a reflection upon life and it reflects itself in a surprising time-construction... a composition of two triangular pictures, one over the...