Werner Nekes Movie Trailers
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Beuys Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture.
Home Movies 1971-81 Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
Jüm-Jüm Trailer (1967)
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).
Alaska Trailer (1968)
12 November 1968
Alaska is a wordless experimental film with a simple, droning soundtrack that sounds as if it is a piece for violin and refrigerator hum.
Diwan Trailer (1974)
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.
Lawale Trailer (1969)
07 October 1969
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.
Abbandono Trailer (1970)
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.
Beyond the Image Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
The film traces the history of the camera obscura, the understanding of perspective and anamorphosis, peepshows and it shows the beauty of historical shadowtheaters and shadow toys.
Spacecut Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
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 of one place being filmed.
Cinématon Trailer (1978)
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-putt Trailer (1967)
26 December 1967
This film is a poetic endeavor about Life and Death. A brown hen was selected to convey motion. The soundtrack is a collage of approximately 200 beginnings and endings of different musical pieces.
Makimono Trailer (1974)
29 December 1974
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 the viewer's vision and thinking.
The Day of the Painter Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
The painter gazes at his female model, or how voyeurism is transformed into culture. An erotic adventure film where the theme is the viewer himself.
Uliisses Trailer (1982)
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.
EXPRMNTL Trailer (2016)
08 October 2016
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium.
Amalgam I-IV Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
A sequence of 4 films: knots, texture, web, plaited--four approaches of writing with light to reflect the possibilities of painting within film.
Pictures Come to Life Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
The history of the magic lantern with demonstrations of moving slides, watertank or polarisation slides, followed by images on paper, which are brought to life with mechanical manipulations, with light shining through them or as panorama.
Multi-Thousand Picture Show Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
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 montage anticipated those used in film today.
Cinématon XXVII Trailer (1982)
31 December 1982
Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
Gurtrug N°2 Trailer (1967)
30 December 1967
The film is a reflection upon life and it reflects itself in a surprising time-construction... a composition of two triangular pictures, one over the other and touching at their tips.
Muhkuh Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
This film, conceived for an "oral culture" shows cows on a pasture in Northern Germany in one single shot.
Little Night Trailer (1979)
31 December 1979
A sleeping girl is plagued by strange dreams; manifold images fuse to create a bewildering puzzle, which finally dissolves and gives way to relief when the agitated girl, calmed by her mother, falls asleep again.
The Magic Drum Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and the stroboscopic effect, such as the thaumatrope, phenakistoscope or wheel of life, zoetrope or magic drum and praxinoscope and later on, the more sophisticated flip-books such as the kinora and mutoscope.
Tarzan’s Kampf mit dem Gorilla Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A satire with cinematical comedy. No other medium would permit this specific form. The comic potential of pithy scraps of dialogue between safari companions, of Tarzan's war-cries and love-stammerings was amplified by illustrating these sounds with pictures of a friendly German wood and homely elephants in a zoo.
Photophthalmia Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
An adventure film, a journey into light. This film is dedicated to Joseph Plateau, the discoverer of the cinematographic principle, who while exploring the inertia of perception stared into the sun until he was blinded.
K/örper Trailer (1967)
31 December 1967
Based on principles of double projection. Here, two pictures are projected on top of each other: on the upper screen is K, the head of the actor, while ÖRPER can be seen on the lower picture.
Zipzibbelip Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
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 failure of a cavalier, a voyeur, a couple taking part in a dance contest; five fragmentary scenes running backwards and forward, standing upright and on their head, accelerated and recurring in cuts that vary in length.
Gurtrug N°1 Trailer (1967)
30 December 1967
I. Demonstration of divergent movements of 26 people and two horses. II. Periodic interruption by a second filmic plane.
Kelek Trailer (1968)
15 December 1968
"KELEK belongs to the 'structural' or 'minimal' cinema movement in that its content is subordinated to the viewer's perception and has no intrinsic significance.
The Ambiguous Image and Space Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
The film looks at ways of creating spezial illusions through amiguous images, perspective theatres, folding peepshows and from the 19th century, the stereoscope, which look forward to today’s holography.
Johnny Flash Trailer (1986)
23 October 1986
Jurgen is an unknown electrician with a dream of pop stardom. His mother browbeats him into fame, while two managers compete for his contract.
Mirador Trailer (1978)
02 February 1978
An expedition report (a winter sailing trip down the Elbe), and a document about filmmakers who leave a city because it's more hospitable elsewhere, reflections, reflexes.
T-Wo-Men Trailer (1972)
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.