Spacecut
1971, 16mm, colorlso, 42m,
Sound by Anthony Moore.
"Of the rather few European independent film artists whose work seems significant and challenging, Werner Nekes is clearly one of the best. His works have a clarity which arises from an intelligent intent that many 'underground' films appear to lack. This clarity of the overall form of his films is generated from the fabric of the works' internal connections of parts; even when the microstructures of Nekes' films are complex, the films have a quality of wholeness and purpose - they have a 'presence' which one usually associates with painting and sculpture. I think this is particularly true of SPACECUT, one of my favorite of Nekes's works." - Paul Sharits
"SPACECUT makes the frame a very strong culminating structure. Every frame is different, yet the almost halfhour assembly of images results in a picture of one place being filmed. SPACECUT has two sections, the second being the frame composite, whereas the first consists of long takes. Within the swirling, fleeting frames the eye receives picture after picture like an enormous, exciting puzzle. Strangely enough, it receives it only by absorption - of the sky, trees, valley, rocks, shadows. The automatic retention of these flashes gives you a sense of being in this bowl of land made by the golddiggers in 1871. You might think that this use of single frames would hurt the eye, but in fact it does not. Rather the experience is one of total relaxation." - Stephen Dwoskin, Film Is
Aus: canyon cinema, film/video catalog 2000
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