Heinz Emigholz Movies
- 2009

Ornament und Verbrechen
Ornament und Verbrechen02009HD
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....
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- 2001

Miscellanea I
Miscellanea I02001HD
Studies on 35mm b/w film from 1988 to 1997.
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- 2007

Schindlers Häuser
Schindlers Häuser72007HD
Both a beguiling meditation on the aesthetic of a city and a loving tribute to a great architect, Heinz Emigholz's documentary examines urban Los...
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- 1977

Demon
Demon51977HD
DEMON, subtitled „The Translation of Stéphane Mallarmé´s THE DEMON OF ANALOGY“, includes the Mallarmé text,...
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- 2005

Miscellanea III
Miscellanea III02005HD
A meditation on ruins and remains linked strongly to the US chapters of Photography and Beyond. A rumination on a nation and dream in tatters. A...
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- 1978

Four Shadows
Four Shadows71978HD
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...
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- 1974

Arrowplane
Arrowplane61974HD
Arrowplane is the multiplication of a one-directional, horizontal 180-degree-panning shot with itself, applied to three landscapes – mound,...
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- 1984

Fury Is a Feeling Too
Fury Is a Feeling Too01984HD
Documentary on the city of Berlin and a personal essay on alienation and being an alien in that city. Cynthia Beatt raises questions and...
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- 2025

Ecce Mole
Ecce Mole02025HD
The latest entry in Heinz Emigholz’s (Slaughterhouses of Modernity, NYFF60) incisive, decades-long inquiry into the cinematic representation of...
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- 2001

Miscellanea II
Miscellanea II8.52001HD
Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997.
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- 1976

Cup Piece
Cup Piece01976HD
Short experimental film from Heinz Emigholz, shot in 1976; sound, no dialogue. Damn fine cup of coffee.
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- 2012

Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete5.82012HD
The third autobiography in the series deals with modern architecture. For the grand finale, he covers a broad historical spectrum: Parabeton tells of...
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- 1976

Schuhstück
Schuhstück01976HD
Short film by Heinz Emigholz shot in 1976; b/w, sound, no dialogue
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- 2005

The Basis of Make-Up III
The Basis of Make-Up III02005HD
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...
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- 1989

Virgin Machine
Virgin Machine4.71989HD
A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
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- 2003

Goff in the Desert
Goff in the Desert62003HD
In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American...
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- 2011

A Series of Thoughts
A Series of Thoughts02011HD
A Series of Thoughts consists of four shorts: EL GRECO IN TOLEDO, LEONARDOS TRÄNEN, AN BORD DER USS TICONDEROGA and EIN MUSEUMSBAU IN ESSEN.
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- 2009

Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler02009HD
The film explores two projects by Austrian artist and visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is...
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- 2001

The Basis of Make-Up II
The Basis of Make-Up II02001HD
Sixty-nine of Heinz Emigholz's illustrated notebooks from 1983 to 1996, three sketch books from the 80s and 90s, and cinematic studies of his...
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- 1983

Die blaue Distanz
Die blaue Distanz101983HD
A woman on a train.
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