Heinz Emigholz
Born: 1948-01-22 in Achim, Germany
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
- Ecce Mole ... (Director)
2024
- The Suit ... (Director)
2023
- Slaughterhouses of Modernity as (voice over)
- Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben ... (Director of Photography)
2022
- Mamani in El Alto ... (Director)
- Salamone, Pampa ... (Director)
2021
- The Last City ... (Director)
- Berlin [Underground] ... (Director)
- Antivilla ... (Director)
- Casa Golly ... (Director)
- WEISS hoch ZWEI ... (Director)
2020
- The Lobby ... (Director)
2019
- Years of Construction ... (Director)
2018
- Two Basilicas ... (Director)
2017
- Dieste [Uruguay] ... (Director)
- Streetscapes [Dialogue] ... (Director)
- 2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] ... (Director)
2016
- Bickels [Socialism] ... (Director)
- Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] ... (Director)
2014
- The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III ... (Editor)
- Two Museums ... (Director)
2013
- Winter ... (Director)
2012
- Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete ... (Director)
- Perret in France and Algeria ... (Director)
2011
- A Series of Thoughts ... (Director)
2009
- Ornament und Verbrechen ... (Director)
- Sense of Architecture ... (Director)
- Saturn Returns as Edgar
- Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler ... (Writer)
2008
- Loos Ornamental ... (Director)
2007
- Schindler's Houses ... (Director)
2005
- D’Annunzio’s Cave ... (Director)
- Miscellanea III ... (Director)
- The Basis of Make-Up III ... (Director)
2003
- Goff in the Desert ... (Director)
2001
- The Basis of Make-Up II ... (Director)
- Sullivan's Banks ... (Director)
- Miscellanea II ... (Writer)
- Maillart's Bridges ... (Director)
- Miscellanea I ... (Director)
1996
1995
- Brother of Sleep as Haintz
1993
- Stalingrad as Edgar Emigholz
1991
- The Holy Bunch ... (Director)
1989
- Virgin Machine ... (Thanks)
1988
1987
- She Must Be Seeing Things ... (Director of Photography)
1985
- Home Movies 1971-81
- Die Basis des Make-Up ... (Director)
1984
- Fury Is a Feeling Too
- Committed as Dr. Kraus
1983
- Die blaue Distanz as Voice at telephone
- The Basis of Make-Up I ... (Director)
1982
- Ordinary Sentence
- Macumba as Vinzenz Nola
1979
- Exekution: A Study of Mary as Narrator (voice)
1978
1977
- Demon ... (Director)
- Der Ort der Handlung
1976
- Bartleby
- Hotel ... (Director)
- Schenec-Tady III ... (Writer)
- Wandsbek Gartenstück ... (Director)
- Schuhstück ... (Director)
- Cup Piece ... (Director)
1975
- Tide ... (Director)
- Schenec-Tady II ... (Director)
- Brooklyn Bathroom Piece ... (Director)
- Stair Piece ... (Director)
1974
- Arrowplane ... (Writer)
1973
- Schenec-Tady I ... (Director)