Werner Nekes Movies

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

A satire with cinematical comedy. No other medium would permit this specific form. The comic potential of pithy scraps of dialogue between safari...

An expedition report (a winter sailing trip down the Elbe), and a document about filmmakers who leave a city because it's more hospitable elsewhere,...

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

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...

Picture montage was a central aspect in the early history of visual media. As early as the 16th century, techniques such as the folding picture...

A sequence of 4 films: knots, texture, web, plaited--four approaches of writing with light to reflect the possibilities of painting within film.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

A man who is looking for a partner via the personals section receives a surprise visit from a sturdy woman. She forces her way into the house and...

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