Werner Nekes Movies

Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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

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

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

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...

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to...

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

"HURRYCAN has nothing to do with whirlwinds, although in this Nekes film the pictures journey across the screen, excitedly, spasmodically and...

"...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...

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

In “jüm-jüm” by Dore 0. and Werner Nekes, a girl swings for 10 minutes in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a...

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

A grotesque review of actions performed in vain and those of frustration incarnate: it is about the vain attempt to button up a pair of briefs, the...