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.
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Movies (73)
Ecce Mole
2025 · Director
The Suit
2024 · Director
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
2023 · Director of Photography
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
2023 · (voice over), Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
Salamone, Pampa
2022 · Director
Mamani in El Alto
2022 · Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
The Last City
2021 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer
Berlin [Underground]
2021 · Director
WEISS hoch ZWEI
2021 · Director
Casa Golly
2021 · Director
Antivilla
2021 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
The Lobby
2020 · Director
Years of Construction
2019 · Director
Two Basilicas
2018 · Director
![Dieste [Uruguay]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg)
Dieste [Uruguay]
2017 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
2017 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
2017 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Writer, Producer
![Bickels [Socialism]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg)
Bickels [Socialism]
2016 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Editor
![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
2016 · Director
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
2014 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
Two Museums
2014 · Director, Camera Operator
Winter
2013 · Director
Perret in France and Algeria
2012 · Director
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
2012 · Director
A Series of Thoughts
2011 · Director, Writer
Saturn Returns
2009 · Edgar
Sense of Architecture
2009 · Director
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
2009 · Director, Writer
Ornament und Verbrechen
2009 · Director
Loos Ornamental
2008 · Director
Schindlers Häuser
2007 · Director
D’Annunzio’s Cave
2005 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Basis of Make-Up III
2005 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
Miscellanea III
2005 · Director, Writer
Goff in the Desert
2003 · Director
Miscellanea I
2001 · Director, Writer
Miscellanea II
2001 · Director, Writer
Sullivan's Banks
2001 · Director
Maillart's Bridges
2001 · Director, Writer
The Basis of Make-Up II
2001 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
Bombenwerfer
1996
Brother of Sleep
1995 · Haintz
Stalingrado
1993 · Edgar Emigholz
Sons
1992 · Man with Knife
The Holy Bunch
1991 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Virgin Machine
1989 · Thanks
She Must Be Seeing Things
1988 · Director of Photography, Thanks
The Meadow of Things
1988 · Director
Die Basis des Make-Up
1985 · Director
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Fury Is a Feeling Too
1984
Committed
1984 · Dr. Kraus, Director of Photography
The Basis of Make-Up I
1983 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
Die blaue Distanz
1983 · Voice at telephone
Ordinary Sentence
1982 · Director, Writer, Editor
Macumba
1982 · Vinzenz Nola
Exekution: A Study of Mary
1979 · Narrator (voice)
Four Shadows
1978
Demon
1977 · Director
Der Ort der Handlung
1977
Wandsbek Gartenstück
1976 · Director
Schuhstück
1976 · Director
Cup Piece
1976 · Director
Schenec-Tady III
1976 · Director, Writer
Bartleby
1976
Hotel
1976 · Director
Schenec-Tady II
1975 · Director, Writer
Brooklyn Bathroom Piece
1975 · Director
Tide
1975 · Director
Stair Piece
1975 · Director
Arrowplane
1974 · Director, Writer
Schenec-Tady I
1973 · Director, Writer
Innsbruck, March 6th 2023
· Director
TV shows (0)
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