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...

An experimental film about the interpenetration of various levels of communication, dealing with the relationship of the pictorial functions to those...

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.

A fixed shot showing six persons, looking into the camera inertly. Gradually tiny, minimal movements can be registered.

SPACECUT makes the frame a very strong culminating structure. Every frame is different, yet the almost half hour assembly of images results in a...

A film by Werner Nekes.

Alaska is a wordless experimental film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum.

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to...

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

The painter gazes at his female model, or how voyeurism is transformed into culture. An erotic adventure film where the theme is the viewer himself.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.