Werner Nekes Movies

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...

Based on principles of double projection. Here, two pictures are projected on top of each other: on the upper screen is K, the head of the actor,...

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...

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Directed by Werner Nekes

An adventure film, a journey into light. This film is dedicated to Joseph Plateau, the discoverer of the cinematographic principle, who while...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.