Movies: Heinz Emigholz

Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Gal...

A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg’s Regenbogenkiez only to evaporate towards Dahlem, the location of the Freie Universität. The western underground ac...

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin....

The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo which could have inspired the work of Eladio Dieste, the subject of the main par...

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. John’s Cathedrale in Valletta, Malta....

The film was planned under the title CONNEC-TICUT and was to consist of two parts. The negative of the first part, shot in Hamburg in May 1973, was lost in the post. As a result, the project was rewritten as the present film....

Kreidler and Heinz Emigholz complete their joint music video series with WINTER, pulling material from Emigholz's SCHENEC-TADY III....

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

A confrontation and comparison of two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between various concepts of church and community: the Protestant Grundtvig’s Church in Copenhagen and the Catholic Cathedral in Orvieto....

The film shows the Antivilla built by Arno Brandlhuber in Potsdam, Krampnitz, between 2010 and 2015. The building has the project number 0131 in the catalog of works by Brandlhuber +. The shooting of Antivilla took place on April 4, 2016 in preparati...

After Roy's demise, five friends try to reconstruct his life by reading through the late editor's notebooks - only to face some very personal demons. The Holy Bunch is a modernist melodrama: beyond-Antonioni in its images, decisively Dreyerian in its...

In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982), who was apprenticed at age 12 but never formally educated as an archi...

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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 cautious reminder of ever-lurking horrors: a glimpse of the warship Puglia, not far from the sarcophagus ...

Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997....

A woman on a train....

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads her diaries. Problems ensue as Agatha's transgressions lead to jealousy and a spiraling cycle of sexual...

Concrete hubris looms over the Argentinean pampa around Buenos Aires. The buildings of Francisco Salamone (1897–1959) advertise a pitiless modern age....

Both a documentary about the city of Berlin and a personal essay about alienation and foreignness in this city. Cynthia Beatt is thought-provoking and raises questions on a range of issues relating to language, politics and culture....

Belgium, 9th october 1979. A cook drills a hole in the door to the "camera obscura" (lat. dark room) of his boss, a persian-american carpet dealer, who lives together with two women and a narcistic drunkard in a dark carpet-cave. All the characters w...