Heinz Emigholz
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.
Personal Details
Movies (50)
Ecce Mole
Director (Directing)
2025
The Suit
Director (Directing)
2024
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
Director of Photography (Camera)
2023
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
as (voice over)
2023
Salamone, Pampa
Director (Directing)
2022
Mamani in El Alto
Director (Directing)
2022
The Last City
Director (Directing)
2021
![Berlin [Underground]](/_next/image?url=%2Fplaceholder-movie.svg&w=3840&q=75)
Berlin [Underground]
Director (Directing)
2021
WEISS hoch ZWEI
Director (Directing)
2021
Casa Golly
Director (Directing)
2021
Antivilla
Director (Directing)
2021
The Lobby
Director (Directing)
2020
Years of Construction
Director (Directing)
2019
Two Basilicas
Director (Directing)
2018
![Dieste [Uruguay]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2FiXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Dieste [Uruguay]
Director (Directing)
2017
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2FlbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Director (Directing)
2017
![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2FxZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
Director (Directing)
2017
![Bickels [Socialism]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2F7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Bickels [Socialism]
Director (Directing)
2016
![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2F3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
Director (Directing)
2016
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
Director of Photography (Camera)
2014
Two Museums
Director (Directing)
2014
Winter
Director (Directing)
2013
Perret in France and Algeria
Director (Directing)
2012
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
Director (Directing)
2012
A Series of Thoughts
Director (Directing)
2011
Sense of Architecture
Director (Directing)
2009
Saturn Returns
as Edgar
2009
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
Director (Directing)
2009
Ornament und Verbrechen
Director (Directing)
2009
Loos Ornamental
Director (Directing)
2008
Schindler's Houses
Director (Directing)
2007
D’Annunzio’s Cave
Director (Directing)
2005
The Basis of Make-Up III
Director (Directing)
2005
Miscellanea III
Director (Directing)
2005
Goff in the Desert
Director (Directing)
2003
Miscellanea II
Director (Directing)
2001
Miscellanea I
Writer (Writing)
2001
Sullivan's Banks
Director (Directing)
2001
Maillart's Bridges
Writer (Writing)
2001
The Basis of Make-Up II
Director (Directing)
2001
Bombenwerfer
1996
Brother of Sleep
as Haintz
1995
Stalingrad
as Edgar Emigholz
1993
The Holy Bunch
Director (Directing)
1991
Virgin Machine
Thanks (Crew)
1989
The Meadow of Things
1988
She Must Be Seeing Things
Director of Photography (Camera)
1987
Die Basis des Make-Up
Director (Directing)
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Fury Is a Feeling Too
1984