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Heinz Emigholz
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 s…
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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.
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2025
Ecce Mole
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2024
The Suit
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2023
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
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2023
Slaughterhouses of Modernity
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2022
Salamone, Pampa
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2022
Mamani in El Alto
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2021
The Last City
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2021
Berlin [Underground]
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2021
WEISS hoch ZWEI
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2021
Casa Golly
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2021
Antivilla
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2020
The Lobby
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2019
Years of Construction
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2018
Two Basilicas
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2017
Dieste [Uruguay]
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2017
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
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2017
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
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2016
Bickels [Socialism]
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2016
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
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2014
The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
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2014
Two Museums
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2013
Winter
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2012
Perret in France and Algeria
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2012
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
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2011
A Series of Thoughts
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2009
Sense of Architecture
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2009
Saturn Returns
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2009
Ornament und Verbrechen
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2009
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
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2008
Loos Ornamental
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2007
Schindlers Häuser
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2005
D’Annunzio’s Cave
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2005
Miscellanea III
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2005
The Basis of Make-Up III
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2003
Goff in the Desert
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2001
Miscellanea II
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2001
Miscellanea I
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2001
Maillart's Bridges
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2001
Sullivan's Banks
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2001
The Basis of Make-Up II
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