Werner Nekes Movies

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

According to the director, "Memory is a cruel hope without awakening."

"...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...

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

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

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

Alaska is a wordless experimental film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum.

"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.

The film traces the history of the camera obscura, the understanding of perspective and anamorphosis, peepshows and it shows the beauty of historical...

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

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...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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