Werner Nekes Movies

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

Directed by Werner Nekes

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

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

Directed by Werner Nekes.

A part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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 part of Werner Nekes' lyrical anthology DIWAN.

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...

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...

Changing landscape as the same day progresses.

Alaska is a wordless experimental film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum.

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