Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

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...

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

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it...

"KELEK belongs to the 'structural' or 'minimal' cinema movement in that its content is subordinated to the viewer's perception and has no intrinsic...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

I. Demonstration of divergent movements of 26 people and two horses. II. Periodic interruption by a second filmic plane. III. A segment of music...

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...

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.

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

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...

A female figure wanders inside a warehouse interior and through various motifs, including a fan and a birdcage, set to a medieval chant.

Directed by Werner Nekes.