Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

I. Demonstration of divergent movements of 26 people and two horses. II. Periodic interruption by a second filmic plane. III. A segment of music...

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

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

This film is a poetic endeavor about Life and Death. A brown hen was selected to convey motion. The soundtrack is a collage of approximately 200...

Jurgen is an unknown electrician with a dream of pop stardom. His mother browbeats him into fame, while two managers compete for his contract. All...

Hurrycan has nothing to do with whirlwinds, although in this Nekes film the pictures journey across the screen, excitedly, spasmodically and...

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

Makimono is an Asian roll painting depicting a landscape. The subject of the film is the language of film itself, its mutability and its influence on...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.