Werner Nekes Filmes

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...

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...

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

"...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...

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

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

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...

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

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

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...

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

A film by Werner Nekes.

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the...