Media Magica by Werner Nekes – The Magical World of Optical Wizardry: Media Magica I – Film Before Film: What Really Happened Between the Images? (Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern?) (1986), Media Magica II – Beyond the image (Durchsehekunst) (1995), Media Magica III – Pictures come to life (Belebte Bilder) (1995), Media Magica IV – Multi-Thousand Picture Show (Vieltausendschau) (1995), Media Magica V – The Ambiguous Image and Space (Bildraum) (1995), Media Magica VI – The Magic Drum (Wundertrommel) (1995) 6 x DVD5

Werner Nekes is both filmmaker and media-researcher, but also a collector of historical books, scientific objects and visual toys from the early period of mediaarts. His extensive collection comprises five centuries of rare objects.

In his film series, "Media Magica", he guides us through his unique collection, as through a museum. He shows his historical objects in motion, because it is only in motion that their magic unfolds and that they regain once more, the charm they radiated in bygone days.

The spectator is taken on a fascinating voyage of discovery in the magic land of pictures. He encounters the Camera Obscura, the Magic Lantern, and peep-shows from the seventeenth century, the artistry of shadow theatre and much more. And he discovers how pre-cinema research of perspective, montage and the illusion of movement and space prepared the way for the film.

6 x DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 345 minutes | 16.8 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Deutsch, Francais
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

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