Werner Nekes
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 29, 1944, Erfurt, Germany
- Died
- January 22, 2017
- Movies
- 81
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2017 | Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures | Self |
| 2016 | EXPRMNTL | Himself |
| 2016 | Eva Hesse | Self |
| 1999 | The Critical Mass | Himself |
| 1997 | Birth of a Nation | Self |
| 1994 | 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter | Man in Swimclothing |
| 1987 | Film Before Film | Self |
| 1985 | Home Movies 1971-81 | |
| 1982 | Cinématon XXVII | N°261 |
| 1982 | Cinématon n°261 : Werner Nekes | |
| 1982 | Uliisses | |
| 1978 | Cinématon | N°261 |
| 1974 | Kaskara | |
| 1974 | Diwan | |
| 1973 | Blonde Barbarei | |
| 1968 | Mama, da steht ein Mann | |
| 1968 | Vis-à-vis | |
| 1966 | Start |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2010 | Downup | Director |
| 2008 | Womanbird | Director |
| 1997 | The Day of the Painter | Director, Screenplay |
| 1996 | Multi-Thousand Picture Show | Director |
| 1996 | Beyond the Image | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1996 | Pictures Come to Life | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1996 | The Ambiguous Image and Space | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1996 | The Magic Drum | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1987 | Film Before Film | Director |
| 1986 | Johnny Flash | Director, Screenplay |
| 1982 | Uliisses | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | Beuys | Director |
| 1980 | Peggy und die anderen oder Wer trägt die Avantgarde? | Director |
| 1979 | Little Night | Director |
| 1979 | Hurrycan | Director |
| 1979 | Horly | Director |
| 1978 | Bei der Lichtbildnerin | Director |
| 1978 | Mirador | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1977 | Lagado | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1976 | Falun | Director |
| 1976 | Textur | Director |
| 1976 | Knoten | Director |
| 1976 | Amalgam I-IV | Director |
| 1976 | Geflecht | Director |
| 1976 | Gewebe | Director |
| 1975 | Photophthalmia | Director |
| 1974 | Makimono | Director |
| 1974 | Diwan | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 1974 | Hynningen | Director |
| 1974 | Alternatim | Director |
| 1974 | Kantilene | Director |
| 1974 | Sun-A-Mul | Director |
| 1974 | Moto | Director |
| 1973 | Arbatax | Director |
| 1972 | T-Wo-Men | Director |
| 1972 | Aus Altona | Director |
| 1971 | Spacecut | Director |
| 1970 | Abbandono | Director |
| 1969 | Nebula | Director |
| 1969 | Palimpsest | Director |
| 1968 | Kelek | Director |
| 1968 | Alaska | Producer |
| 1968 | Vis-à-vis | Director |
| 1968 | Gruppenfilm | Director |
| 1968 | Zipzibbelip | Director |
| 1968 | Mama, da steht ein Mann | Director |
| 1968 | Tarzan’s Kampf mit dem Gorilla | Director |
| 1968 | Muhkuh | Director |
| 1967 | K/örper | Director |
| 1967 | Gurtrug N°1 | Director |
| 1967 | Gurtrug N°2 | Director |
| 1967 | Ach wie gut, daß niemand weiß | Director |
| 1967 | Kratz-, Beiß-, Licht-, Loch- und Flickerfilme | Director |
| 1967 | Operation | Director |
| 1967 | Jüm-Jüm | Director |
| 1967 | Das Seminar | Director |
| 1967 | Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-putt | Director |
| 1967 | Bogen | Director |
| 1967 | Schnitte für Ababa | Director |
| 1966 | Fehlstart | Director |
| 1966 | Start | Director, Producer |
| 1966 | Artikel | Director |
| 1965 | Tom Doyle und Eva Hesse | Director |
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