Dore O. Trailers
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Trained as a painter, O. was cofounder of the Hamburger Filmschau, alongside with her husband and collaborator Werner Nekes. For all the psychedelia of her early work, subsequent films are rigorous in refractory experimentation: rear-projections, double-impositions, repeated frames and breathtaking lunges of the handheld camera, which seems bolstered as much by raw impulse as it does by any guiding principle of onscreen organization. O.’s work establishes its own space-time linearities, then argues them against each other–sometimes content with a mild flicker, a closing or opening aperture or a flurry of blunt smears. This is a playful and often freefalling visual poetics, best left to wash over you pure and analyzed later (or better yet, not at all.)
Most Popular Dore O. Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
01 January 1981
The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture.
18 June 1982
Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by poetic, symbolic images and language, with a certain amount of nudity added in.
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
20 April 1985
Enzyklop is a rediscovery and reconstruction of the cyclopean gaze that Odysseus erased to free himself.
01 January 1994
A painter surrounded by images - his own and those of the reality that surrounds him - is the protagonist of the latest film by Dore O.
31 December 1998
For "Thermoment" Dore O. filmed the clarinetist Eckard Koltermann with a heat recording camera and thus translated the heat regions of the body's interior into images while making music.
10 October 1972
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 importance.
29 December 1967
A montage experiment in which Dore O., her body painted in different colours, swings back and forth in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a phallus (slightly abstract and fairly large).
01 January 1968
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 competition with each other, accentuated rhythmically or rubato, until the silent noise becomes piercing and rings in the ears.
01 January 1982
The reality of the film is the fantast of the viewer. My north pole in the Ruhr valley. Dedicated to Georges Méliès.
27 December 1974
An experimental film where a particular space is constantly "present" : there is a complex usage of superim- position, and of split-screen effects.
28 February 1979
Hurrycan has nothing to do with whirlwinds, although in this Nekes film the pictures journey across the screen, excitedly, spasmodically and flickering.
08 December 1970
"...Nekes retreats behind his film. What is left is a double portrait, in which neither Dore 0. nor the grand landscape remain unchanged.
01 July 1999
A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the Mainstream or the New German Cinema.
01 January 2000
Traces a series of forever-winding staircases like liminal excerpts from an endless memory-spool, asking the viewer which spaces their eyes may have taken for granted along the ambling path.
04 December 2025
A strange succession of tableaux of four women and a man which gives the sense of a sort of dream family locked in an antiseptic world of endless afternoon teas, dinners and waiting.
01 January 1968
A fixed shot showing six persons, looking into the camera inertly. Gradually tiny, minimal movements can be registered.
04 December 2025
Attracted to Nordic landscapes, [Dore O.] filmed KALDALON (1970/71) in Iceland where images of water, rocks, steam and smoke were technically enhanced to appear blue-tinged.
04 December 2025
Alaska is a wordless experimental film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum.
02 February 1974
Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it.
01 January 1988
A painterly, poetic experimental film with narrative elements. A woman is looking after an obviously blind man.
01 January 1991
In 1920 Frans Masereel published in Paris his woodcut series "The idea". Dore O. has draw inspiration from this work on her first feature film, a poetic fable about the human longing for a free and just society.
01 May 1973
A female figure wanders inside a warehouse interior and through various motifs, including a fan and a birdcage, set to a medieval chant.
01 January 1976
A series of still photographs, is various states of photographic exposure.
