Heinz Emigholz
Directing
1948-01-22 · Achim, Germany
Born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, Heinz Emigholz trained first as a draftsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg. He began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer and producer in Germany and the USA. In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series The Basis of Make-Up . He looks back on numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures and publications. In 1984 he started his film series Photography and beyond. He has held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1993 to 2013, and co-founded the Institute for Time-based Media and the program Art and Media, there. Since 2012 member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2003 Filmgalerie 451 started an edition of all his films on DVD. Publications a.o.: Krieg der Augen, Kreuz der Sinne (War of Eyes, Cross of Senses), Seit Freud gesagt hat, der Künstler heile seine Neurose selbst, heilen die Künstler ihre Neurosen selbst (Since Freud Said That the Artist Heals His Neuroses Himself, Artists Have Been Healing Their Neuroses Themselves), Normalsatz – Siebzehn Filme (Ordinary Sentence – Seventeen Films) and Das schwarze Schamquadrat (The Black Sqare of Shame) (all four books at Verlag Martin Schmitz); Die Basis des Make-Up (I) and (II), Der Begnadete Meier (Grace Jones), Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie (Little Encyclopaedia of Photography) and Die Basis des Make-Up (III) (in Die Republik No. 68-71, 76-78, 89-91, 94-97 and 123-125); Sense of Architecture with more than 600 photographs.
Filmography
Ecce Mole
2025 · Movie
The Suit
2024 · Movie
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
2023 · Movie
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
2023 · Movie
Salamone, Pampa
2022 · Movie
Mamani in El Alto
2022 · Movie
The Last City
2021 · Movie
Berlin [Underground]
2021 · Movie
WEISS hoch ZWEI
2021 · Movie
Casa Golly
2021 · Movie
Antivilla
2021 · Movie
The Lobby
2020 · Movie
Years of Construction
2019 · Movie
Two Basilicas
2018 · Movie
![Dieste [Uruguay]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg)
Dieste [Uruguay]
2017 · Movie
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
2017 · Movie
![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
2017 · Movie
![Bickels [Socialism]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg)
Bickels [Socialism]
2016 · Movie
![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
2016 · Movie
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
2014 · Movie
Two Museums
2014 · Movie
Winter
2013 · Movie
Perret in France and Algeria
2012 · Movie
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
2012 · Movie
A Series of Thoughts
2011 · Movie
Sense of Architecture
2009 · Movie
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
2009 · Movie
Ornament und Verbrechen
2009 · Movie
Saturn Returns
2009 · Movie
Loos Ornamental
2008 · Movie
Schindlers Häuser
2007 · Movie
D’Annunzio’s Cave
2005 · Movie
Miscellanea III
2005 · Movie
The Basis of Make-Up III
2005 · Movie
Goff in the Desert
2003 · Movie
Miscellanea II
2001 · Movie
Miscellanea I
2001 · Movie
Maillart's Bridges
2001 · Movie
Sullivan's Banks
2001 · Movie
The Basis of Make-Up II
2001 · Movie
Bombenwerfer
1996 · Movie
Brother of Sleep
1995 · Movie
Stalingrad
1993 · Movie
Sons
1992 · Movie
The Holy Bunch
1991 · Movie
Virgin Machine
1989 · Movie
She Must Be Seeing Things
1988 · Movie
The Meadow of Things
1988 · Movie
Die Basis des Make-Up
1985 · Movie
Home Movies 1971-81
1985 · Movie
Fury Is a Feeling Too
1984 · Movie
Committed
1984 · Movie
The Basis of Make-Up I
1983 · Movie
Die blaue Distanz
1983 · Movie
Ordinary Sentence
1982 · Movie
Macumba
1982 · Movie
Exekution: A Study of Mary
1979 · Movie
Four Shadows
1978 · Movie
Demon
1977 · Movie
Der Ort der Handlung
1977 · Movie
Wandsbek Gartenstück
1976 · Movie
Schuhstück
1976 · Movie
Cup Piece
1976 · Movie
Schenec-Tady III
1976 · Movie
Bartleby
1976 · Movie
Hotel
1976 · Movie
Schenec-Tady II
1975 · Movie
Brooklyn Bathroom Piece
1975 · Movie
Tide
1975 · Movie
Stair Piece
1975 · Movie
Arrowplane
1974 · Movie
Schenec-Tady I
1973 · Movie
Innsbruck, March 6th 2023
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