Werner Nekes Movie Trailers

Mama, da steht ein Mann Trailer (1968)

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.

Kaskara Trailer (1974)

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.

00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter Trailer (1994)

21 December 1994

The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume control of the case.

Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures Trailer (2017)

09 November 2017

In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and Helge Schneider, Ulrike Pfeiffer takes us on a journey into the broad expanse of Nekes' cabinet of wonder and his cinematic works.

Eva Hesse Trailer (2016)

27 April 2016

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York.

Lagado Trailer (1977)

02 April 1977

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

Hurrycan Trailer (1979)

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.

Film Before Film Trailer (1987)

26 March 1987

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices.

Hynningen Trailer (1974)

02 February 1974

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

The Critical Mass Trailer (1999)

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.

The Bengali Night Trailer (1980)

01 January 1980

“ Cinema is what happens between frames," said German experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. A woman and a man are on the ground together but it looks as though they are floating without moving.