- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 22, 1948
- Place of Birth
- Achim, Germany
Heinz Emigholz
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, d…
Filmography
movieEcce Mole
2025 · Director
movieThe Suit
2024 · Director
movieDer Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
2023 · Director of Photography
movieSlaughterhouses of Modernity
2023 · (voice over), Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
movieSalamone, Pampa
2022 · Director
movieMamani in El Alto
2022 · Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
movieThe Last City
2021 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
Berlin [Underground]
2021 · Director
WEISS hoch ZWEI
2021 · Director
movieCasa Golly
2021 · Director
movieAntivilla
2021 · Director, Cinematography, Editor
movieThe Lobby
2020 · Director
movieYears of Construction
2019 · Director
movieTwo Basilicas
2018 · Director
![Dieste [Uruguay]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/iXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg)
movieDieste [Uruguay]
2017 · Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)
movieStreetscapes [Dialogue]
2017 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/xZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg)
movie2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
2017 · Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
![Bickels [Socialism]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg)
movieBickels [Socialism]
2016 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg)
movieLe Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
2016 · Director
movieThe Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
2014 · Editor, Director, Director of Photography
movieTwo Museums
2014 · Director, Camera Operator
movieWinter
2013 · Director
moviePerret in France and Algeria
2012 · Director
movieParabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
2012 · Director
A Series of Thoughts
2011 · Director, Writer
movieSense of Architecture
2009 · Director
movieSaturn Returns
2009 · Edgar
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
2009 · Writer, Director
Ornament und Verbrechen
2009 · Director
movieLoos Ornamental
2008 · Director
movieSchindler's Houses
2007 · Director
movieD’Annunzio’s Cave
2005 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Basis of Make-Up III
2005 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
Miscellanea III
2005 · Director, Writer
movieGoff in the Desert
2003 · Director
Miscellanea I
2001 · Director, Writer
Miscellanea II
2001 · Writer, Director
movieSullivan's Banks
2001 · Director
movieMaillart's Bridges
2001 · Director, Writer
The Basis of Make-Up II
2001 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
Bombenwerfer
1996
movieBrother of Sleep
1995 · Haintz
movieStalingrad
1993 · Edgar Emigholz
Sons
1992 · Man with Knife
movieThe Holy Bunch
1991 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
movieVirgin Machine
1989 · Thanks
movieThe Meadow of Things
1988 · , Director
movieShe Must Be Seeing Things
1987 · Director of Photography
movieDie Basis des Make-Up
1985 · Director
movieHome Movies 1971-81
1985
movieFury Is a Feeling Too
1984
movieCommitted
1984 · Dr. Kraus, Cinematography
The Basis of Make-Up I
1983 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
movieDie blaue Distanz
1983 · Voice at telephone
movieOrdinary Sentence
1982 · , Writer, Director, Editor
movieMacumba
1982 · Vinzenz Nola
movieExekution: A Study of Mary
1979 · Narrator (voice)
movieFour Shadows
1978
Demon
1977 · Director
movieDer Ort der Handlung
1977
movieWandsbek Gartenstück
1976 · Director
movieSchuhstück
1976 · Director
movieCup Piece
1976 · Director
Schenec-Tady III
1976 · Writer, Director
movieBartleby
1976
Hotel
1976 · Director
Schenec-Tady II
1975 · Director, Writer
movieBrooklyn Bathroom Piece
1975 · Director
Tide
1975 · Director
movieStair Piece
1975 · Director
Arrowplane
1974 · Writer, Director
Schenec-Tady I
1973 · Director, Writer
movieInnsbruck, March 6th 2023
— · Director