Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

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

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

"...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...

An expedition report (a winter sailing trip down the Elbe), and a document about filmmakers who leave a city because it's more hospitable elsewhere,...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

A film by Werner Nekes.

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...

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

A film by Werner Nekes.