Werner Nekes Movies

Directed by Werner Nekes

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

The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume control of the case....

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

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

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...

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

Cinematic observations from the windows of my apartment. Structure and beauty of the pictures are related to my earlier film 'gurtrug No.1'....

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

The film is divided into five parts differing in pictorial and musical structure. The plot, two women and their love for one another, is of secondary...

A sleeping girl is plagued by strange dreams; manifold images fuse to create a bewildering puzzle, which finally dissolves and gives way to relief...

A film by Werner Nekes.

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

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

A film by Werner Nekes.