Heinz Emigholz

Heinz Emigholz

Born: January 22, 1948
in 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.

Movies for Heinz Emigholz...

Slaughterhouses of Modernity
Title: Slaughterhouses of Modernity
Character: (voice over)
Released: January 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Contemporary cinema’s preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz Emigholz returns with an alternately mournful and sly treatise on how the presence—and, in some cases, absence—of municipal and communal building architecture is inseparable from capitalist ideology. Focusing mainly on cities and provinces in Argentina, Germany, and Bolivia, Emigholz’s latest film is a work of quiet observation and historical excavation. From slaughterhouses in Salamone to the flooded former spa city of Epecuén to the newly built Humboldt Forum in Berlin, the film demonstrates the effect of capital on public spaces, where creation and destruction go hand in hand, and as always, Emigholz makes the journey one of intellectual force and cinematic beauty.
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Saturn Returns
Title: Saturn Returns
Character: Edgar
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.
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Brother of Sleep
Title: Brother of Sleep
Character: Haintz
Released: September 8, 1995
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.
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Stalingrad
Title: Stalingrad
Character: Edgar Emigholz
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: Movie
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed under the command of a sadistic captain, the platoon lieutenant leads his men to desert. The platoon members attempt escape from the city, now surrounded by the Soviet Army.
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The Meadow of Things
Title: The Meadow of Things
Released: February 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted car dealer.
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Home Movies 1971-81
Title: Home Movies 1971-81
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Committed
Title: Committed
Character: Dr. Kraus
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.
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Die blaue Distanz
Title: Die blaue Distanz
Character: Voice at telephone
Released: February 22, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman on a train.
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Ordinary Sentence
Title: Ordinary Sentence
Released: February 16, 1982
Type: Movie
An experimental German film
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Macumba
Title: Macumba
Character: Vinzenz Nola
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own conventionalities.
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Elementary Editing Theory
Title: Elementary Editing Theory
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Part 3 of "3 Miniatures after Melanie Klein"
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Execution: A Story of Mary
Title: Execution: A Story of Mary
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A German short film
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Der Ort der Handlung
Title: Der Ort der Handlung
Released: January 17, 1977
Type: Movie
A German TV movie
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Bartleby
Title: Bartleby
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.
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Bombenwerfer
Title: Bombenwerfer
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie