Werner Nekes Movies

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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...

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...

"...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...

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

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...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Directed by Werner Nekes.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

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