Werner Nekes Movies

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

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

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

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

Directed by Werner Nekes.

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

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

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

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

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

"...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...

Directed by Werner Nekes.

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

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

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

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...