Werner Nekes

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.

Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and ...

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 ...

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

The history of the magic lantern with demonstrations of moving slides, watertank or polarisation slides, followed by images on paper, which are ...

The film looks at ways of creating spezial illusions through amiguous images, perspective theatres, folding peepshows and from the 19th century, ...

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the “prehistory” of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures ...

Jurgen is an unknown electrician with a dream of pop stardom. His mother browbeats him into fame, while two managers compete for his contract. ...

Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce’s Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are ...

The German artist Joseph Beuys is reflecting on his theory of art, being filmed as a kinetic sculpture. In 1981, the film has won the German film ...

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