Werner Nekes Movies

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

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...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

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

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

A film by Werner Nekes.

"...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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

The history of the magic lantern with demonstrations of moving slides, watertank or polarisation slides, followed by images on paper, which are...

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to...