Werner Nekes Movies

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

Picture montage was a central aspect in the early history of visual media. As early as the 16th century, techniques such as the folding picture...

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New...

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

A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the...

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

The film is divided into five parts differing in pictorial and musical structure. The plot, two women and their love for one another, is of secondary...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Dore O. and later Nekes speak to each other and into the camera, slowly and deliberately like a speech exercise, quickly like a tongue twister or in...

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 sleeping girl is plagued by strange dreams; manifold images fuse to create a bewildering puzzle, which finally dissolves and gives way to relief...

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