Dore O.

Directing

Dore O.

Born 1946-08-09 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany 12 films

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 …

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Filmography

12 films
Lawale poster

A strange succession of tableaux of four women and a man which gives the sense of a sort of dream f…

Lawale

★ 10.0 2025

Kaldalon poster

Attracted to Nordic landscapes, [Dore O.] filmed KALDALON (1970/71) in Iceland where images of wate…

Kaldalon

★ 9.0 2025

Uliisses poster

Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to th…

Uliisses

★ 4.3 1982

Hurrycan poster

Hurrycan has nothing to do with whirlwinds, although in this Nekes film the pictures journey across…

Hurrycan

★ 0.0 1979

Diwan poster

Diwan, a lyric anthology, an outdoor movie with people. With people living in the surrounding preci…

Diwan

★ 7.3 1974

T-Wo-Men poster

The film is divided into five parts differing in pictorial and musical structure. The plot, two wom…

T-Wo-Men

★ 4.8 1972

Abbandono poster

"...Nekes retreats behind his film. What is left is a double portrait, in which neither Dore 0. nor…

Abbandono

★ 9.0 1970

Vis-à-vis poster

A fixed shot showing six persons, looking into the camera inertly. Gradually tiny, minimal movement…

Vis-à-vis

★ 9.5 1968

Jüm-Jüm poster

A montage experiment in which Dore O., her body painted in different colours, swings back and forth…

Jüm-Jüm

★ 5.8 1967