Werner Nekes Movies

SPACECUT makes the frame a very strong culminating structure. Every frame is different, yet the almost half hour assembly of images results in a...

A montage experiment in which Dore O., her body painted in different colours, swings back and forth in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a...

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

Directed by Werner Nekes

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it...

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

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...

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

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

"KELEK belongs to the 'structural' or 'minimal' cinema movement in that its content is subordinated to the viewer's perception and has no intrinsic...

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

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...

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

A grotesque review of actions performed in vain and those of frustration incarnate: it is about the vain attempt to button up a pair of briefs, the...