Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 2014
    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

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    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 Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
  • 1996
    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

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    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...

    Bombenwerfer
  • 2016
    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

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    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] contrasts the Villa Savoye, built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn’s Grand Relief, which the...

    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
  • 1984
    Fury Is a Feeling Too

    Fury Is a Feeling Too

    Fury Is a Feeling Too

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    Documentary on the city of Berlin and a personal essay on alienation and being an alien in that city. Cyn­thia Beatt raises questions and...

    Fury Is a Feeling Too
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

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    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 2009
    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

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    The film explores two projects by Austrian artist and visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is...

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
  • 2020
    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    The Lobby

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    A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust...

    The Lobby
  • 2016
    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism]

    4.52016HD

    The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre...

    Bickels [Socialism]
  • 2003
    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

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    In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American...

    Goff in the Desert
  • 2025
    Ecce Mole

    Ecce Mole

    Ecce Mole

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    The latest entry in Heinz Emigholz’s (Slaughterhouses of Modernity, NYFF60) incisive, decades-long inquiry into the cinematic representation of...

    Ecce Mole
  • 2008
    Loos Ornamental

    Loos Ornamental

    Loos Ornamental

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    One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in...

    Loos Ornamental
  • 2005
    The Basis of Make-Up III

    The Basis of Make-Up III

    The Basis of Make-Up III

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    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...

    The Basis of Make-Up III
  • 2021
    Berlin [Underground]

    Berlin [Underground]

    Berlin [Underground]

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    A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg’s...

    Berlin [Underground]
  • 1977
    Der Ort der Handlung

    Der Ort der Handlung

    Der Ort der Handlung

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    A German TV movie

    Der Ort der Handlung
  • 1983
    The Basis of Make-Up I

    The Basis of Make-Up I

    The Basis of Make-Up I

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    Forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1974 to 1983, a notebook of Heinrich Emigholz dated 1941, a sketchbook from the 70s,...

    The Basis of Make-Up I
  • 1985
    Die Basis des Make-Up

    Die Basis des Make-Up

    Die Basis des Make-Up

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    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,...

    Die Basis des Make-Up
  • 1976
    Wandsbek Gartenstück

    Wandsbek Gartenstück

    Wandsbek Gartenstück

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

    Wandsbek Gartenstück
  • 2009
    Ornament und Verbrechen

    Ornament und Verbrechen

    Ornament und Verbrechen

    02009HD

    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....

    Ornament und Verbrechen
  • 1992
    Sons

    Sons

    Sons

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    Experimental short film set in a military environment.

    Sons
  • 2011
    A Series of Thoughts

    A Series of Thoughts

    A Series of Thoughts

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

    A Series of Thoughts