Werner Nekes Movies

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

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."

The film looks at ways of creating spezial illusions through amiguous images, perspective theatres, folding peepshows and from the 19th century, the...

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...

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....

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

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...

A film by Werner Nekes.

The painter gazes at his female model, or how voyeurism is transformed into culture. An erotic adventure film where the theme is the viewer himself.

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.