Heinz Emigholz

The Suit (2024)

That loquacious cynic known as "Old White Male," played by John Erdman in Heinz Emigholz's 2020 film The Lobby, returns in this delirious, sci-fi-comic follow-up that covers an even wider spectrum of human absurdity and wrestles with the biggest question m ...

Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben (2023)

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his time and today a star of the younger generation of contemporary artists. ARTE is showing the documentary on t ...

Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2023)

Contemporary cinema's preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz Emigholz returns with an alternately mournful and sly treatise on how the presence—and, in some cases, absenceâ ...

Salamone, Pampa (2022)

Concrete hubris looms over the Argentinean pampa around Buenos Aires. The buildings of Francisco Salamone (1897–1959) advertise a pitiless modern age. ...

Mamani in El Alto (2022)

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau ri ...

The Last City (2021)

An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be'er ...

Berlin [Underground] (2021)

A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg's Regenbogenkiez only to evaporate towards Dahlem, the location of the Freie Universität. The western underground academ ...

WEISS hoch ZWEI (2021)

Casa Golly (2021)

The films of pre-eminent documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz present the most important architects of the 20th century not through explanation or biography, but by using the camera to reveal the structures that define their art. From Bruce Goff's churches ...

Antivilla (2021)

The film shows the Antivilla built by Arno Brandlhuber in Potsdam, Krampnitz, between 2010 and 2015. The building has the project number 0131 in the catalog of works by Brandlhuber +. The shooting of Antivilla took place on April 4, 2016 in preparation for ...

The Lobby (2020)

A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust on death, consciousness, and the state of contemporary human relations. The man's mostly unsolicited remark ...

Years of Construction (2019)

Demolition of the old and building of the new Kunsthalle in Mannheim in the years 2013 to 2018. ...

Two Basilicas (2018)

A confrontation and comparison of two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between various concepts of church and community: the Protestant Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen and the Catholic Cathedral in Orvieto. ...

Dieste [Uruguay] (2017)

The final part of Heinz Emigholz's "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo which could have inspired the work of Eladio Dieste, the subject of the main part of ...

Streetscapes [Dialogue] (2017)

A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces. At some point, the idea takes hold that this conversation could be turned into a film. And this is the ver ...

2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] (2017)

Worn-down pavements, broken paving stones. Trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi in the summer of 2013. Glimpses of side and main streets, over railings and under balconies, of an architectural ...

Bickels [Socialism] (2016)

The 'Casa do Povo' cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers' movement: a crumbling theatre flanked by staircases, entryways and corridors. Construction noise drones away in the background, clinking crockery, a broom sweeping ove ...

Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] (2016)

Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] contrasts the Villa Savoye, built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn's Grand Relief, which the Danish painter and sculptor produced in 1959 for the Ã…rhus Statsgymnasium. The film makes connections between what ...

The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III (2014)

In the 21st part of his Photography and beyond series, Heinz Emigholz projects as usual a series of structures into our brains and from there on to the screen: Airports, motorways and bus stops; department stores, market halls and warehouses. ...

Two Museums (2014)

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano (b. 1937) 1986 . The method of natural lighting in Bickel ...

Winter (2013)

Kreidler and Heinz Emigholz complete their joint music video series with WINTER, pulling material from Emigholz's SCHENEC-TADY III. ...

Perret in France and Algeria (2012)

Lauded artist-filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (Schindler's Houses) offers an exquisite excursus on the work of pioneering French architect Auguste Perret, including privileged views of his innovative concrete structures in Algeria and such magnificent landmarks a ...

Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (2012)

The third autobiography in the series deals with modern architecture. For the grand finale, he covers a broad historical spectrum: Parabeton tells of the great Roman concrete buildings from the start of the Common Era and compares them with Pier Luigi Nerv ...

A Series of Thoughts (2011)

A Series of Thoughts consists of four shorts: EL GRECO IN TOLEDO, LEONARDOS TRÄNEN, AN BORD DER USS TICONDEROGA and EIN MUSEUMSBAU IN ESSEN. ...

Sense of Architecture (2009)

A passage through modern civilised life by way of 42 architectural projects in Austria and elsewhere. From a church belfry to a kindergarten, pharmacy, housing project etc. and finally to a crematorium and adjoining columbarium. A minimalist twentieth-cent ...

Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler (2009)

The film explores two projects by Austrian artist and visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is currently exhibited at the Kiesler Foundation in Vienna and THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK designed and built by Frederick K ...

Ornament und Verbrechen (2009)

A 1908 essay by Adolf Loos is here read by the incomparable Carola Regnier and set to virtual photographs of 18th-century marble inlays at St. John's Cathedrale in Valletta, Malta. ...

Loos Ornamental (2008)

One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in architectural theory. His development of a spatial plan launched a new approach to thinking about building spaces. ...

Schindler's Houses (2007)

Both a beguiling meditation on the aesthetic of a city and a loving tribute to a great architect, Heinz Emigholz's documentary examines urban Los Angeles through the houses of Austrian-American architect Rudolph Schindler. Eschewing the documentary convent ...

D’Annunzio’s Cave (2005)

Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan's Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of the enormous Villa Cargnacco in Lombardy, Italy, designed by proto-fascist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938). ...

The Basis of Make-Up III (2005)

The film shows thirty-eight of Heinz Emigholz's notebooks and sketchbooks from 1996 to 2004: cinematic studies of marble inlays on the memorial slabs in the Johannes Cathedral in Valetta, Malta in 2004; of Skull Rock in Joshua Tree Desert in California, wh ...

Miscellanea III (2005)

A meditation on ruins and remains linked strongly to the US chapters of Photography and Beyond. A rumination on a nation and dream in tatters. A cautious reminder of ever-lurking horrors: a glimpse of the warship Puglia, not far from the sarcophagus contai ...

Goff in the Desert (2003)

In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982), who was apprenticed at age 12 but never formally educated as an architect. ...

Miscellanea I (2001)

Studies on 35mm b/w film from 1988 to 1997. ...

Miscellanea II (2001)

Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997. ...

Sullivan's Banks (2001)

Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). "In everything that men do they leave an indelible imprint of their minds. If this suggestion be followed out, it will become surprisingly clear how each and eve ...

Maillart's Bridges (2001)

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his engineering masterpieces, which, the film argues, embrace both functionality and aesthetics. Instead of following a ...

The Basis of Make-Up II (2001)

Sixty-nine of Heinz Emigholz's illustrated notebooks from 1983 to 1996, three sketch books from the 80s and 90s, and cinematic studies of his exhibition "Der Untergang der Bismarck" at the Zwinger Gallery, Berlin 1988, a castle moat in Riva, Italy 1997, a ...

The Holy Bunch (1991)

After Roy's demise, five friends try to reconstruct his life by reading through the late editor's notebooks - only to face some very personal demons. The Holy Bunch is a modernist melodrama: beyond-Antonioni in its images, decisively Dreyerian in its spiri ...

Virgin Machine (1989)

A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city. ...

The Meadow of Things (1988)

Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer. ...

She Must Be Seeing Things (1987)

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha's transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual obses ...

Die Basis des Make-Up (1985)

Belgium, 9th october 1979. A cook drills a hole in the door to the "camera obscura" (lat. dark room) of his boss, a persian-american carpet dealer, who lives together with two women and a narcistic drunkard in a dark carpet-cave. All the characters walk a ...

Committed (1984)

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin. ...

The Basis of Make-Up I (1983)

Forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1974 to 1983, a notebook of Heinrich Emigholz dated 1941, a sketchbook from the 70s, twenty-four photographs from 100 Hudson Street, 240 President Street, 325 West 11th Street, Kleine Reichenstrasse ...

Ordinary Sentence (1982)

An experimental German film ...

Demon (1977)

DEMON, subtitled „The Translation of Stéphane Mallarmé´s THE DEMON OF ANALOGY", includes the Mallarmé text, spoken by various performers in its original French version, and in English and German as well. Most of the shots in the film are one word lo ...

Wandsbek Gartenstück (1976)

With Marcia Bronstein and Silke Grossmann. Hamburg, Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, May 1976. ...

Schuhstück (1976)

Short film by Heinz Emigholz shot in 1976; b/w, sound, no dialogue ...

Cup Piece (1976)

Short experimental film from Heinz Emigholz, shot in 1976; sound, no dialogue. Damn fine cup of coffee. ...

Schenec-Tady III (1976)

The elaborate copying work was carried out in Hamburg in 1975/76. The SCHENEC-TADY films are dedicated to Great Birnam Wood. ...

Hotel (1976)

Emigholz disrupts the linear narrative via editing, and then reconnects the shots based on recognizable patterns. In doing so, he brings new meaning to the images. ...

Schenec-Tady II (1975)

The film was planned under the title CONNEC-TICUT and was to consist of two parts. The negative of the first part, shot in Hamburg in May 1973, was lost in the post. As a result, the project was rewritten as the present film. ...

Brooklyn Bathroom Piece (1975)

Tide (1975)

The first part shows the progression from high tide to low tide in 15 minutes. The second, equally long part follows the changes from high tide to low tide. The artist's special work consisted of defining a complex recording plan (score) that had to be pre ...

Stair Piece (1975)

Experimental short about some stairs. ...

Arrowplane (1974)

Arrowplane is the multiplication of a one-directional, horizontal 180-degree-panning shot with itself, applied to three landscapes – mound, city and beach. ...

Schenec-Tady I (1973)

Film was 40 minutes long at its premiere in London and was shortened to its current length in 1975. The parts that were cut out served as the basis for SCHENEC-TADY III in 1975. ...

Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2023)

Contemporary cinema's preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz Emigholz returns with an alternately mournful and sly treatise on how the presence—and, in some cases, absenceâ ...

Saturn Returns (2009)

Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a ...

Bombenwerfer (1996)

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred thousand letters falling from the sky." The letters are memories and trauma. No one talks about them. The boy kn ...

Brother of Sleep (1995)

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ a ...

Stalingrad (1993)

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members at ...

The Meadow of Things (1988)

Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer. ...

Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years. ...

Fury Is a Feeling Too (1984)

Documentary on the city of Berlin and a personal essay on alienation and being an alien in that city. Cyn­thia Beatt raises questions and provokes reflec­tion on a wide range of issues concerning language and culture, politics and history. ...

Committed (1984)

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin. ...

Die blaue Distanz (1983)

A woman on a train. ...

Ordinary Sentence (1982)

An experimental German film ...

Macumba (1982)

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own convent ...

Elementary Editing Theory (1981)

Part 3 of "3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein" ...

Exekution: A Study of Mary (1979)

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch's own version of Mary Stuart. "The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval, but got ca ...

Four Shadows (1978)

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sections t ...

Der Ort der Handlung (1977)

A German TV movie ...