ULIISSES

"The grammars of thought are changed by history, but the stories remain the same". The radical, prolific Nekes has subjected James Joyce's epoch-making novel to a similar creative transformation on film as Joyce's novel did to Homer's 'Odyssey':—with respect for the things which endure from the past, but also with a passionate belief that the present must discover and assert its own ways of reconciling artistic vision with contemporary existence—and finally also with confidence that the future will come to acknowledge the value of the present's struggle.

Thus Nekes plunges us into a vortex of technical and aesthetic inventions structured around the 18 episodes of the 'Odyssey' with a Joycean gusto for wordplay, and a cheeky reprise of the history of the cinema.
Since 1965, Werner Nekes has made more than sixty films in which he has developed and applied unusual approaches, interpretations and techniques.