Heinz Emigholz

Directing·Jan 22, 1948·Achim, Germany

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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.

Film	Credit
Ecce Mole2025 · Director	Director
The Suit2024 · Director	Director
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben2023 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Slaughterhouses of Modernity2023 · (voice over), Director, Writer	(voice over), Director, Writer
Salamone, Pampa2022 · Director	Director
Mamani in El Alto2022 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Last City2021 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer	Director, Director of Photography, Writer
BBerlin [Underground]2021 · Director	Director
WWEISS hoch ZWEI2021 · Director	Director
Casa Golly2021 · Director	Director
Antivilla2021 · Director	Director
The Lobby2020 · Director	Director
Years of Construction2019 · Director	Director
Two Basilicas2018 · Director	Director
Dieste [Uruguay]2017 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Streetscapes [Dialogue]2017 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]2017 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
Bickels [Socialism]2016 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]2016 · Director	Director
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III2014 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
Two Museums2014 · Director	Director
Winter2013 · Director	Director
Perret in France and Algeria2012 · Director	Director
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete2012 · Director	Director
AA Series of Thoughts2011 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Sense of Architecture2009 · Director	Director
Saturn Returns2009 · Edgar	Edgar
TTwo Projects by Friedrich Kiesler2009 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
OOrnament und Verbrechen2009 · Director	Director
Loos Ornamental2008 · Director	Director
Schindler's Houses2007 · Director	Director
D’Annunzio’s Cave2005 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
TThe Basis of Make-Up III2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
MMiscellanea III2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Goff in the Desert2003 · Director	Director
MMiscellanea II2001 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
MMiscellanea I2001 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Sullivan's Banks2001 · Director	Director
Maillart's Bridges2001 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
TThe Basis of Make-Up II2001 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
BBombenwerfer1996 · Actor	Actor
Brother of Sleep1995 · Haintz	Haintz
Stalingrad1993 · Edgar Emigholz	Edgar Emigholz
SSons1992 · Man with Knife	Man with Knife
The Holy Bunch1991 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
The Meadow of Things1988 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
She Must Be Seeing Things1987 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Die Basis des Make-Up1985 · Director	Director