Werner Nekes Movies

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...

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

Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are...

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

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

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

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

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture. In 1981, the film has won the German film...

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,...

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

A montage experiment in which Dore O., her body painted in different colours, swings back and forth in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

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

A strange succession of tableaux of four women and a man which gives the sense of a sort of dream family locked in an antiseptic world of endless...

"...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...