Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

"...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...

The film traces the history of the camera obscura, the understanding of perspective and anamorphosis, peepshows and it shows the beauty of historical...

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

Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are...

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...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

A film by Werner Nekes.

A film by Werner Nekes.

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