
Directing
Born April 29, 1944 · Erfurt, Germany
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.

Downup
2010

Womanbird
2008

The Day of the Painter
1997

Multi-Thousand Picture Show
1996

Beyond the Image
1996

Pictures Come to Life
1996

The Ambiguous Image and Space
1996

The Magic Drum
1996

Film Before Film
1987

Johnny Flash
1986

Uliisses
1982

Beuys
1981

Peggy und die anderen oder Wer trägt die Avantgarde?
1980

Little Night
1979

Hurrycan
1979
Horly
1979
Bei der Lichtbildnerin
1978

Mirador
1978

Lagado
1977

Falun
1976

Textur
1976

Knoten
1976

Amalgam I-IV
1976

Gewebe
1976

Geflecht
1976

Photophthalmia
1975

Makimono
1974
Diwan
1974

Hynningen
1974

Alternatim
1974

Sun-A-Mul
1974

Moto
1974

Kantilene
1974

Arbatax
1973

T-Wo-Men
1972
Aus Altona
1972

Spacecut
1971
Abbandono
1970

Nebula
1969
Palimpsest
1969
Kelek
1968

Vis-à-vis
1968

Tarzan’s Kampf mit dem Gorilla
1968

Muhkuh
1968

Mama, da steht ein Mann
1968

Zipzibbelip
1968
Gruppenfilm
1968

K/örper
1967

Gurtrug N°1
1967
Ach wie gut, daß niemand weiß
1967

Operation
1967
Kratz-, Beiß-, Licht-, Loch- und Flickerfilme
1967

Gurtrug N°2
1967

Jüm-Jüm
1967

Das Seminar
1967

Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-putt
1967

Bogen
1967

Schnitte für Ababa
1967

Fehlstart
1966

Start
1966

Artikel
1966

Tom Doyle und Eva Hesse
1965
Werner Nekes - Life Between the Pictures
2017

EXPRMNTL
2016

Eva Hesse
2016
The Critical Mass
1999

00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter
1994

Film Before Film
1987

Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Cinématon XXVII
1982

Cinématon n°261 : Werner Nekes
1982

Uliisses
1982

Cinématon
1978

Kaskara
1974
Diwan
1974

Blonde Barbarei
1973

Mama, da steht ein Mann
1968

Vis-à-vis
1968