From Werner Nekes Filmproduktion Studios

Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are...

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

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to...

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...

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

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

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

An experimental film where a particular space is constantly "present" : there is a complex usage of superim- position, and of split-screen effects....

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

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

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.

Two men travel around.