Known For
Directing
Born
Jan 22, 1948
Place of Birth
Achim, Germany
Credits
73 titles
Heinz Emigholz
Biography
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.
Known For
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Filmography
Ecce Mole
Director
The Suit
Director
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
Director of Photography
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
(voice over)
Salamone, Pampa
Director
Mamani in El Alto
Director
The Last City
Director
Berlin [Underground]
Director
WEISS hoch ZWEI
Director
Casa Golly
Director
Antivilla
Director
The Lobby
Director
Years of Construction
Director
Two Basilicas
Director
Dieste [Uruguay]
Director
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Director
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
Director
Bickels [Socialism]
Director
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
Director
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
Director of Photography
Two Museums
Director
Winter
Director
Perret in France and Algeria
Director
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
Director
A Series of Thoughts
Director
Sense of Architecture
Director
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
Director
Ornament und Verbrechen
Director
Saturn Returns
Edgar
Loos Ornamental
Director
Schindler's Houses
Director
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Director
Miscellanea III
Director
The Basis of Make-Up III
Director
Goff in the Desert
Director
Miscellanea II
Director
Miscellanea I
Writer
Maillart's Bridges
Writer
Sullivan's Banks
Director
The Basis of Make-Up II
Director
Bombenwerfer
Brother of Sleep
Haintz
Stalingrad
Edgar Emigholz
Sons
Man with Knife
The Holy Bunch
Director
Virgin Machine
Thanks
The Meadow of Things
She Must Be Seeing Things
Director of Photography
Die Basis des Make-Up
Director
Home Movies 1971-81