Dore O.
Biography: Trained as a painter, O. was cofounder of the Hamburger Filmschau, alongside with her husband and collaborator Werner Nekes. For all the psychedelia of her early work, subsequent films are rigorous in refractory experimentation: rear-projections, double-impositions, repeated frames and breathtaking lunges of the handheld camera, which seems bolstered as much by raw impulse as it does by any guiding principle of onscreen organization. O.’s work establishes its own space-time linearities, then argues them against each other–sometimes content with a mild flicker, a closing or opening aperture or a flurry of blunt smears. This is a playful and often freefalling visual poetics, best left to wash over you pure and analyzed later (or better yet, not at all.)
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 09, 1946
Deathday: March 07, 2022
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985-01-01
Home Movies 1971-81
Overview: Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Lawale
1969-10-07
Lawale
Overview: According to the director, "Memory is a cruel hope without awakening."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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T-Wo-Men
1972-10-29
T-Wo-Men
Overview: The film is divided into five parts differing in pictorial and musical structure. The plot, two women and their love for one another, is of secondary importance. An ingenious combination of stereoscopic images and montage of individual pictures make new qualities of perception accessible to the viewer. In the final part of the love scenes pictorial sequences and music build up to a delirious rhythm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-29
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Jüm-Jüm
1967-12-29
Jüm-Jüm
Overview: In “jüm-jüm” by Dore 0. and Werner Nekes, a girl swings for 10 minutes in front of a movie screen, on which is painted a phallus (slightly abstract and fairly large) The perspective is such that the girl appears to be swinging into and out of the phallus. It is one who is content to see through the specific event. the work exhausts itself in a trivial aspect, the literary. This is most comfortable for the critic: the literary content of a work is easiest to reproduce in a literary form of criticism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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Abbandono
1970-12-08
Abbandono
Overview: "...Nekes retreats behind his film. What is left is a double portrait, in which neither Dore 0. nor the grand landscape remain unchanged. The cold of the icy coastline - long shots of stones, snow and the sea - dwindles away before the image of Dore 0. Solitude is superflous, when the grandiose mountain meadow invites somersaults. ... In this case Nekes handles what he shows considerately. He releases the objects he portrays. He allows them to unfold. And so model and patterns actually serve another purpose: to let poetry grow, and energy and beauty and confidence nell'abbandono." (Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Filmkritik, 9/1971).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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Hurrycan
1979-02-28
Hurrycan
Overview: "HURRYCAN has nothing to do with whirlwinds, although in this Nekes film the pictures journey across the screen, excitedly, spasmodically and flickering. The title weds the element of haste with the notion of a film can, which in this case turns out to be something of a Pandora's Box and contains expectations for a new way of seeing. A computerized shutter system that Nekes had built" (Aus: filmmakers cooperative catalogue No. 7) - http://wernernekes.de/00_cms/cms/front_content.php?idart=548
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Diwan
1974-02-02
Diwan
Overview: Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding precious and very beautifully photographed nature, are neither more nor less than one part of it. What Nekes manages there with landscape, as a cunning and quote many fine artist in a medium that runs in time, as he defeated the time changed, by themselves for change of scenery uses, as it interferes with the laws of chronology through the rewind ability of the camera or destroyed, which is a compelling and highly aesthetic experimental company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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The Critical Mass
1999-07-01
The Critical Mass
Overview: A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the Mainstream or the New German Cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-07-01
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Kaldalon
1971-09-01
Kaldalon
Overview: Attracted to Nordic landscapes, [Dore O.] filmed KALDALON (1970/71) in Iceland where images of water, rocks, steam and smoke were technically enhanced to appear blue-tinged. (Text from 'The Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema')
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Mama, da steht ein Mann
1968-01-01
Mama, da steht ein Mann
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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