Werner Nekes Movies

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

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.

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.

A satire with cinematical comedy. No other medium would permit this specific form. The comic potential of pithy scraps of dialogue between safari...

A man who is looking for a partner via the personals section receives a surprise visit from a sturdy woman. She forces her way into the house and...

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...

Based on principles of double projection. Here, two pictures are projected on top of each other: on the upper screen is K, the head of the actor,...

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

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...