Heinz Emigholz
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.
Stalingrad
(Edgar Emigholz)
Brother of Sleep
(Haintz)
Macumba
(Vinzenz Nola)
Home Movies 1971-81
Committed
(Dr. Kraus)
Bombenwerfer
The Meadow of Things
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
((voice over))
Four Shadows
Fury Is a Feeling Too
Execution: A Story of Mary
(Narrator (voice))
Der Ort der Handlung
Ordinary Sentence
Saturn Returns
(Edgar)
Die blaue Distanz
(Voice at telephone)
Bartleby
Schindler's Houses
(Director)
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
(Director)
Perret in France and Algeria
(Director)
Virgin Machine
(Thanks)
Sense of Architecture
(Director)
Goff in the Desert
(Director)
The Holy Bunch
(Director)
D’Annunzio’s Cave
(Director)
Committed
(Cinematography)
Antivilla
(Director)
Antivilla
(Cinematography)
Antivilla
(Editor)
Casa Golly
(Director)
Hotel
(Director)
Tide
(Director)
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
(Director of Photography)
Loos Ornamental
(Director)
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
(Director)
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
(Director of Photography)
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
(Editor)
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
(Director)
Berlin [Underground]
(Director)
Two Museums
(Director)
Two Museums
(Camera Operator)
Sullivan's Banks
(Director)
The Meadow of Things
(Director)
Maillart's Bridges
(Director)
Maillart's Bridges
(Writer)
The Basis of Make-Up I
(Director)
The Basis of Make-Up II
(Director)
The Basis of Make-Up III
(Director)
A Series of Thoughts
(Director)
A Series of Thoughts
(Writer)
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
(Director)
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
(Writer)
Miscellanea I
(Director)
Miscellanea I
(Writer)
Miscellanea II
(Director)
Miscellanea II
(Writer)
Miscellanea III
(Director)
Miscellanea III
(Writer)
Mamani in El Alto
(Director)
Salamone, Pampa
(Director)
Winter
(Director)
Schenec-Tady I
(Director)
Schenec-Tady I
(Writer)
Schenec-Tady II
(Director)
Schenec-Tady II
(Writer)
Schenec-Tady III
(Director)
Schenec-Tady III
(Writer)
Arrowplane
(Director)
Arrowplane
(Writer)
Wandsbek Gartenstück
(Director)
Demon
(Director)
D’Annunzio’s Cave
(Writer)
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
(Writer)
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
(Cinematography)
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
(Editor)
Ornament und Verbrechen
(Director)
Bickels [Socialism]
(Director)
Mamani in El Alto
(Screenplay)
Mamani in El Alto
(Cinematography)
Mamani in El Alto
(Editor)
WEISS hoch ZWEI
(Director)
The Basis of Make-Up I
(Writer)
The Basis of Make-Up I
(Cinematography)
The Basis of Make-Up I
(Editor)
The Basis of Make-Up II
(Writer)
The Basis of Make-Up II
(Cinematography)
The Basis of Make-Up II
(Editor)
The Basis of Make-Up III
(Writer)
The Basis of Make-Up III
(Cinematography)
The Basis of Make-Up III
(Editor)
The Holy Bunch
(Screenplay)
The Holy Bunch
(Director of Photography)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
(Director)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
(Director)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
(Director)
Dieste [Uruguay]
(Director)
Ordinary Sentence
(Director)
Ordinary Sentence
(Writer)
Ordinary Sentence
(Editor)
Schuhstück
(Director)
Cup Piece
(Director)
Two Basilicas
(Director)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
(Writer)
Stair Piece
(Director)
Brooklyn Bathroom Piece
(Director)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
(Cinematography)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
(Editor)
Dieste [Uruguay]
(Writer)
Dieste [Uruguay]
(Director of Photography)
Dieste [Uruguay]
(Editor)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
(Director of Photography)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
(Editor)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
(Writer)
Bickels [Socialism]
(Writer)
Bickels [Socialism]
(Director of Photography)
Bickels [Socialism]
(Editor)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
(Producer)
The Suit
(Director)
Years of Construction
(Director)
The Last City
(Director)
The Last City
(Director of Photography)
The Last City
(Editor)
The Last City
(Writer)
Die Basis des Make-Up
(Director)
D’Annunzio’s Cave
(Director of Photography)
The Lobby
(Director)
She Must Be Seeing Things
(Director of Photography)
Innsbruck, March 6th 2023
(Director)