Heinz Emigholz

Known for DirectingBorn 1948-01-22 (age 78)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Die Basis des Make-Up

Die blaue Distanz

Schenec-Tady III

Schenec-Tady II

Hotel

Miscellanea II

Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben

Committed

Ordinary Sentence

Schenec-Tady I

Exekution: A Study of Mary

Stalingrad

Perret in France and Algeria

Schindler's Houses

Years of Construction

Four Shadows

Der Ort der Handlung

Brother of Sleep

The Holy Bunch

Macumba

Goff in the Desert

Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

D’Annunzio’s Cave

The Meadow of Things

Streetscapes [Dialogue]

Arrowplane

Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

Two Museums

Saturn Returns

She Must Be Seeing Things

The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

Sullivan's Banks

2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

Maillart's Bridges

Demon

Stair Piece

Virgin Machine

Bickels [Socialism]

Dieste [Uruguay]

Ecce Mole

The Suit

Slaughterhouses of Modernity

Mamani in El Alto

Salamone, Pampa

Antivilla

Casa Golly

Berlin [Underground]

WEISS hoch ZWEI