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Film Before Film (1987)
Directed by Werner Nekes
Documentary · 1h 23m
An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices. Working with these formats, early "producers" created melodramas, comedies, -- as well as lots of pornography -- anticipating most of the forms known today. Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and rewarding optical experience. Film Before Film is a bewildering assault of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.
Cast
Werner Nekes
Crew
- Director
- Werner Nekes
- Director of Photography
- Bernd Upnmoor, Christoph Schlingensief, Serge Roman
- Original Music Composer
- Anthony Moore
- Editor
- Astrid Nicklaus
Details
- Original title
- Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern?
- Release date
- 1987-03-26
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Werner Nekes Filmproduktion