Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

In “jüm-jüm” by Dore 0. and Werner Nekes, a girl swings for 10 minutes in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a...

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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

According to the director, "Memory is a cruel hope without awakening."

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

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.

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

A film 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...

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...

Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and the...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.