Werner Nekes Movies

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

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

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...

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

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

The film is a reflection upon life and it reflects itself in a surprising time-construction... a composition of two triangular pictures, one over the...

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

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

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...

Two men travel around.

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