Werner Nekes
Werner Nekes was born in 1944 in Erfurt and studied linguistics and psychology in Freiburg. He then went to Bonn in 1964 where he was a head of the University Film Club and later chairman of the FIAG. He developed friendships with film directors, sculptors and painters. These included Dore 0., his companion and collaborator since 1967.
He began painting in 1965 with diverse materials and objects.
He started his practice of film with 8mm and went on with 16mm. He decided to free the film from narration and psychology and organized his films according to temporal units and structural systems.
In spring 1967, his films were rejected by the Kurzfilmtage of Oberhausen. Thus, Nekes organized a counter-event.
The same year in November, he comes to Hamburg with Dore 0., whom he marries the following month. He was a co-founder of the Hamburg cooperative of filmmakers and was a co-organizer of the « Hamburger Filmschau » in 1967. From 1973, he travelled all over the world to make seminaries about film theory and retrospectives. He moved to Mülheim an der Ruhr in summer 1978.
He co-founded the Filmbüro NW in 1980 and the ICNC (International Center for New Cinema) in Riga in 1988.
His work was shown at major international museums and festivals, including The Museum of Modern Art New York, or the Kassel Dokumenta.
He was also a professor: from 1969 to 1972 and 2004 to 2006 at the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Bildende Künste) in Hamburg, from 1981 to 1982 at Wuppertal University, from 1982 to 1984 at the Kunsthochschule Offenbach, and, from 1990-96 at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.
Furthermore, Nekes has compiled one of the most important private collections of artefacts documenting 500 years of pre-cinematographic experiments as well as developments in the early history of film, focusing on spatial and temporal principles of representation.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 7.721 |
Birthday | 1944-04-29 |
Place of Birth | Erfurt, Germany |
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1994
00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
6.368/53
The funny clown Bratislav Metulskie is found dead in circus "Apollo". The retired commissioner 00 Schneider is asked to assume control of the case. Sc...
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00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Home Movies 1971-81
1987
Film Before Film
8.1/7
An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the...
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Film Before Film
1974
Kaskara
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An experimental film where a particular space is constantly "present" : there is a complex usage of superim- position, and of split-screen effects. Th...
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Kaskara
1974
Diwan
7/5
Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are n...
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Diwan
1978
Cinématon
4.3/6
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 y...
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Cinématon
1999
The critical mass
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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 Mainstrea...
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The critical mass
1982
Cinématon XXVII
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Reel 27 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Cinématon XXVII
1982
Cinématon n°261 : Werner Nekes
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Cinématon n°261 : Werner Nekes
2017
Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern
5.5/2
In conversations with his friends and colleagues, among them Bernd Upnmoor, Helmut Herbst, Alexander Kluge, Klaus Wyborny, Daniel Kothenschulte and He...
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Werner Nekes - Das Leben zwischen den Bildern
2016
Eva Hesse
6.5/8
German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York....
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