Peter Nestler Movies

"Nestler relates the histories of shipbuilding, armaments, and war in Europe to the exploitation of labor and the circulation of knowledge and...

Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.

Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro...

In 1950, Picasso was offered a room that had once been used as a chapel in his hometown of Vallauris. He pictured turning it into a “pagan site...

Peter Nestler's short focusses the works of four Chilean artists: two painters [Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn], a graphic designer [Rolando...

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...

This work produced by Swedish television, where Swedish kids reads texts written by Japanese kids about their experiencing of and surviving the...

“This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in...

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The...

In a 13-minute navigation, Nestler takes us downstream the Rhine River. The opportunity of cheap water transport kept prices of raw material down and...

This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.

Documentary short by Peter Nestler.

Interview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working...

A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.

The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood...

Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced...

The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.

Essay film about the origins of war in human history