Werner Nekes Movies

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,...

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

Directed by Werner Nekes.

A film by Werner Nekes.

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

A film by Werner Nekes.

Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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...

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

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 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...

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