Heinz Emigholz

Directing · Acting · Writing · Camera · Crew · Editing

Born January 22, 1948, 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.

Filmography

• 2025Ecce Mole — Director
• 2024The Suit — Director
• 2023Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben — Director of Photography
• 2023Slaughterhouses of Modernity — (voice over), Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
• 2022Mamani in El Alto — Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
• 2022Salamone, Pampa — Director
• 2021Antivilla — Director, Cinematography, Editor
• 2021Berlin [Underground] — Director
• 2021Casa Golly — Director
• 2021The Last City — Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2021WEISS hoch ZWEI — Director
• 2020The Lobby — Director
• 2019Years of Construction — Director
• 2018Two Basilicas — Director
• 20172 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] — Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
• 2017Dieste [Uruguay] — Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
• 2017Streetscapes [Dialogue] — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
• 2016Bickels [Socialism] — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
• 2016Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] — Director
• 2014The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III — Editor, Director, Director of Photography
• 2014Two Museums — Director, Camera Operator
• 2013Winter — Director
• 2012Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete — Director
• 2012Perret in France and Algeria — Director
• 2011A Series of Thoughts — Director, Writer
• 2009Ornament und Verbrechen — Director
• 2009Saturn Returns — Edgar
• 2009Sense of Architecture — Director
• 2009Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler — Writer, Director
• 2008Loos Ornamental — Director
• 2007Schindlers Häuser — Director
• 2005D’Annunzio’s Cave — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2005Miscellanea III — Director, Writer
• 2005The Basis of Make-Up III — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
• 2003Goff in the Desert — Director
• 2001Maillart's Bridges — Director, Writer
• 2001Miscellanea I — Director, Writer
• 2001Miscellanea II — Writer, Director
• 2001Sullivan's Banks — Director
• 2001The Basis of Make-Up II — Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer
• 1996Bombenwerfer
• 1995Brother of Sleep — Haintz
• 1993Stalingrad — Edgar Emigholz
• 1992Sons — Man with Knife
• 1991The Holy Bunch — Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
• 1989Virgin Machine — Thanks
• 1988She Must Be Seeing Things — Director of Photography, Thanks
• 1988The Meadow of Things — Director
• 1985Die Basis des Make-Up — Director
• 1985Home Movies 1971-81
• 1984Committed — Dr. Kraus, Director of Photography
• 1984Fury Is a Feeling Too
• 1983Die blaue Distanz — Voice at telephone
• 1983The Basis of Make-Up I — Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
• 1982Macumba — Vinzenz Nola
• 1982Ordinary Sentence — Writer, Director, Editor
• 1979Exekution: A Study of Mary — Narrator (voice)
• 1978Four Shadows
• 1977Demon — Director
• 1977Der Ort der Handlung
• 1976Bartleby
• 1976Cup Piece — Director
• 1976Hotel — Director
• 1976Schenec-Tady III — Writer, Director
• 1976Schuhstück — Director
• 1976Wandsbek Gartenstück — Director
• 1975Brooklyn Bathroom Piece — Director
• 1975Schenec-Tady II — Director, Writer
• 1975Stair Piece — Director
• 1975Tide — Director
• 1974Arrowplane — Writer, Director
• 1973Schenec-Tady I — Director, Writer
• Innsbruck, March 6th 2023 — Director