Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

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

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and...

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...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

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

SPACECUT makes the frame a very strong culminating structure. Every frame is different, yet the almost half hour assembly of images results in a...

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.

A film by Werner Nekes.