Werner Nekes Movies

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

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...

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

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it...

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...

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

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...

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

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

The painter gazes at his female model, or how voyeurism is transformed into culture. An erotic adventure film where the theme is the viewer himself.