Werner Nekes Movies

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

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

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

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

A montage experiment in which Dore O., her body painted in different colours, swings back and forth in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a...

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

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

A strange succession of tableaux of four women and a man which gives the sense of a sort of dream family locked in an antiseptic world of endless...

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

The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture. In 1981, the film has won the German film...

"...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...

An adventure film, a journey into light. This film is dedicated to Joseph Plateau, the discoverer of the cinematographic principle, who while...

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

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

A film by Werner Nekes.