Werner Nekes Programme

Werner Nekes (1944 – 2017) is one of the key figu­res of German avant-gar­de cine­ma. In the mid-1960s, he tra­ded the visu­al arts for a 16mm came­ra and began expe­ri­men­ting with both the fil­ming and edi­ting process. Landscapes – from Hamburg to Sweden – are a recur­ring motif in his work. Using sin­gle-fra­me shots and mul­ti­ple expo­su­res, he dis­sects and recon­structs the­se lands­ca­pes in a way that tou­ches on the ori­gi­nal magic and won­der of the medi­um. Nekes refer­red to his films as ​“light the­a­ter,” a play with opti­cal illusions. (OFFoff)