Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

"KELEK belongs to the 'structural' or 'minimal' cinema movement in that its content is subordinated to the viewer's perception and has no intrinsic...

A female figure wanders inside a warehouse interior and through various motifs, including a fan and a birdcage, set to a medieval chant.

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

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...

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...