Peter Nestler Movies

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...

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

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

How to Make Glass (Mechanically) is part of a series of educational films for television intended for young audiences. Directed by Peter and...

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on...

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...

Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...

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

Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany.

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

This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining...

The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...

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

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.

A hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro incontri (2005), and to their access to cinema itself. In various...

“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

The first part of a history about the history of paper.