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Monday 8 November - Monday 13 December 2004
FILMS BY WERNER NEKES
In a comprehensive retrospective, the Goethe-Institut London will present a
selection of Werner Nekes' experimental films to complement the display of
his unique collection of optical devices shown as part of the exhibition
Eyes, Lies and Illusions at the Hayward Gallery. The films, like his
collection, reflect his persistent interest in the laws of perception and
the tools and media used to create illusions of reality. But by manipulating
and restructuring the filmed material through a variety of different
techniques, Nekes also interrupts these illusions and has us experience
alternative ones in which sound and image often form an integral unity.
The season will also include MEDIA MAGICA, Nekes' filmed history of optical
phenomena and apparatuses from the Camera Obscura to early cinema.
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Monday 8 November 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
EARLY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
START. 1966, 16mm, colour 10min. Sound.
GURTURG Nr. 1. 1966, 16mm, colour, 12min. Sound.
MUH-KUH; 1966, 16mm, b/w, 14min. Silent.
PUT-PUTT: 1967,16mm, colour,10min. Sound.
KELEK. 1968, 16mm, b/w, 60min. Silent.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175193.htm
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Tuesday 9 November 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
MEDIA MAGICA II - BEYOND THE IMAGE (Durchsehekunst)
55 min, DVD, in English
This film looks at the Camera Obscura, its relevance to the invention of
perspective, and at anamorpheses, which played with perspective.
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MEDIA MAGICA III - PICTURES COME TO LIFE (Belebte Bilder)
55 min, DVD, in English
About the Magic Lantern, paper and object animation, transparencies, and
panorama pictures. This film presents different inventions that made it
possible to project, bring to life, or view images long before the emergence
of cinema.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175214.htm
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Thursday 11 November 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
JÜM-JÜM
with Dore O. 1967, 16mm, colour, 10min.
Through an intricate montage the movements of a woman sitting on a swing are
structured according to a simple rhythmic beat.
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T-WO-MEN
1972, 16mm, 90 min. Sound by Anthony Moore.
A film about two women and their love for one another and at the same time
an ingenious combination of stereoscopic images and montage.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175197.htm
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Thursday 18 November 2004, 7pm, Goethte-Institut London
MEDIA MAGICA IV - MULTI-THOUSAND PICTURE SHOW (Vieltausendschau)
55 min, DVD, in English
Picture montage was a central aspect in the early history of visual media.
As early as in the sixteenth century, techniques, such as the folding
picture montage, were anticipating those used in film today.
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MEDIA MAGICA V - THE AMBIGUOUS IMAGE AND SPACE (Bild - Raum)
55 min, DVD, in English
The wish to convey a sense of space or depth led to the development of such
devices as perspective-theatres, which anticipated the folding diorama, or
stereo-pictures.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175219.htm
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Friday 19 November 2004, 6.30pm, Goethe-Institut London
SCHNITTE FÜR ABABA
1967, 16mm, colour, 11min.
The title ABABA refers to the metric sequencing of different coloured pieces
of film according to a rivetting beat.
The screening will take place on the Goethe-Institut terrace.
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ULIISSES
1982, 35mm, colour 94min. In English and German with English subtitles.
Taking elements from Homer's Odyssee, James Joyce's Ulysses, and Neil Orams'
play The Warp, Uliisses follows the adventures of Uli, a photographer from
the Ruhr area (where Nekes grew up and still lives). By no means a literary
adaptation, Uliisses is a bizarre journey through the history of film and
its seemingly infinite visual possibilities.
Werner Nekes will be present at the screening and as we hope also members of
the cast of Uliisses.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175202.htm
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Monday 22 November 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
THE DAY OF THE PAINTER (DER TAG DES MALERS)
Germany 1997, 35mm, colour, 84min. Sound by Anthony Moore.
This most recent of Nekes' films scrutinizes the painter's gaze on his
female model and explores how voyeurism is transformed into Culture.
Werner Nekes will be present to introduce the screening.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175204.htm
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Wednesday 24 November 2004, 6.10pm, National Film Theatre
FILM BEFORE FILM (WAS GESCHAH WIRKLICH ZWISCHEN DEN BILDERN?)
Germany 1986, 35mm, colour and b/w, 83min, in English.
Predating the Media Magica series by a little less than a decade Film Before
Film is Werner Nekes' first foray into the pre-history of cinema.
The screening will be introduced by Werner Nekes.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175220.htm
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Thursday 25 November 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
MEDIA MAGICA VI - THE MAGIC DRUM (Wundertrommel)
55 min, DVD, in English
Other essential predecessors of film were those devices that created the
illusion of motion by taking advantage of the persistence of vision and the
stroboscopic effect, such as the simple thaumatrope, or the phenakistoscope,
zoetrope, and praxinoscope.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175218.htm
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Friday 3 December 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
BEUYS
1981, 16mm, colour, 11min. English subtitles.
The artist Joseph Beuys talks about his concept of art - with his face
turned to the wall and his back to the camera.
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AMALGAM
Germany 1975/76, 16mm, colour, 16min. Sound by Anthony Moore.
Nekes dissolves pictures, layers and merges images, creates and breaks
continuities of movement to transfer the principles that underlie different
styles in painting to the medium of film.
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MAIKIMONO
1974, 16mm, colour, 38min. Sound by Anthony Moore.
From a fixed camera position a landscape is filmed. Simply depicted at
first, it slowly evolves from natural scenery to optical material as the
camera movements become faster.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175205.htm
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Monday 6 December 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
ZIPZIBBELIP
1968, 16mm, b/w, 11min.
A short grotesque, a series of futile actions, failed attempts and
frustrations, played backwards and forwards, up-side down and accelerated.
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LAGADO
Germany 1977, 16mm, colour, 79min. English subtitles.
An experiment in the interpenetration of various levels of communication as
well as the relationship from image to sound, this film unfolds as an
enormous sensual stimulus on screen.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175208.htm
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Thursday 9 December 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
ABBANDONO
Germany 1970, 16mm, colour, 35min. Sound.
Composed of material from four year's work, this film assembles different
scenes - part of a room through which two people keep on passing, snow
falling on roofs, a snow-white landscape with a single figure - to create
one of Nekes' most lyrical films.
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DIWAN
Germany 1973, 16mm, colour, 85min. Sound by Anthony Moore.
The title refers to the collection of poems by the Persian poet Hafiz and to
Goethe's West-East Diwan. And the intensity of the multiple exposures, which
evokes experiences of being sheltered and abandoned, seems to in deed
visualise Hafiz' poetry and Goethe's homage to it.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175209.htm
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Monday 13 December 2004, 7pm, Goethe-Institut London
MITCHELL FEIGENBAUM
Germany 1992, colour, 16mm, 13min. Directors Werner Nekes and Dore O.
The film shows mathematical physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum talking about how
he came to develop his thoughts and ideas. Processes of film 'alchemy' are
used to create a cinematic analogy to chaos theory to which Feigenbaum made
decisive contributions.
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MIRADOR - ABENTEUER IM LAND DER SCHATTENSTEINE
Germany 1978, 35mm, colour, 88min.
For this film several new technical apparatuses were designed to realize
different image ideas. One is Nekes' construction of a mirror mechanism
which is placed in front of the lens and connected to the camera.
http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/flm/en175210.htm
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all screenings at
Goethe-Institut London, 50 Princes Gate, London SW7 2PH
(Nearest Tube: South Kensington)
Box Office: 020 7596 4000.
All Tickets: £ 3.00
except "Film Before Film" (24 November 2004) at
National Film Theatre, South Bank, London, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
(Nearest Tube: Waterloo)
Tickets: £7.90 / NFT Members £6.90 / concessions £6.00
Box Office: 020 7928 3232
www.wernernekes.de
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EYES, LIES & ILLUSONS
The exhibition EYES, LIES & ILLUSONS is open daily at the Hayward Gallery
until 3 January 2005. This extraordinary exhibition combines more than a
thousand instruments, images and devices drawn from the remarkable
collection of the German experimental film-maker Werner Nekes with major
works by internationally renowned contemporary artists showing how optical
phenomena continue to fascinate to this day.
Hayward Gallery, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Telephone: 020 7960 5226
www.hayward.org.uk/exhibitions/illusion/
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