Werner Nekes
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: April 29, 1944
Day of Death: January 22, 2017 (73 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Multi-Thousand Picture Show
Writer
Beyond the Image
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Beyond the Image
Producer
Pictures Come to Life
Producer
Beyond the Image
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Pictures Come to Life
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Pictures Come to Life
Director
The Magic Drum
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The Magic Drum
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The Ambiguous Image and Space
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The Ambiguous Image and Space
Producer
The Ambiguous Image and Space
Producer
The Magic Drum
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Jüm-Jüm
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Bogen
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Gurtrug N°1
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Das Seminar
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Schnitte für Ababa
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K/örper
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Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-putt
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Ach wie gut, daß niemand weiß
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Operation
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Kratz-, Beiß-, Licht-, Loch- und Flickerfilme
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Gurtrug N°2
