Werner Nekes Movies

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

Directed by Werner Nekes

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

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...

Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are...

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

A film 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...

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

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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...