Werner Nekes Movies

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...

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

The film is divided into five parts differing in pictorial and musical structure. The plot, two women and their love for one another, is of secondary...

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

Cinematic observations from the windows of my apartment. Structure and beauty of the pictures are related to my earlier film 'gurtrug No.1'....

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

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

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...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

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

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...

A film by Werner Nekes.