Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 2017
    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    4.82017HD

    Worn-down pavements, broken paving stones. Trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi...

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

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    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 1984
    Committed

    Committed

    Committed

    01984HD

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

    Committed
  • 2009
    Ornament und Verbrechen

    Ornament und Verbrechen

    Ornament und Verbrechen

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    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....

    Ornament und Verbrechen
  • 2025
    Ecce Mole

    Ecce Mole

    Ecce Mole

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

    Ecce Mole
  • 1976
    Bartleby

    Bartleby

    Bartleby

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    Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.

    Bartleby
  • 2022
    Salamone, Pampa

    Salamone, Pampa

    Salamone, Pampa

    02022HD

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

    Salamone, Pampa
  • 2016
    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism]

    4.42016HD

    The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre...

    Bickels [Socialism]
  • 2020
    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    02020HD

    A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust...

    The Lobby
  • 1977
    Der Ort der Handlung

    Der Ort der Handlung

    Der Ort der Handlung

    01977HD

    A German TV movie

    Der Ort der Handlung
  • 2005
    The Basis of Make-Up III

    The Basis of Make-Up III

    The Basis of Make-Up III

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    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...

    The Basis of Make-Up III
  • 2005
    Miscellanea III

    Miscellanea III

    Miscellanea III

    02005HD

    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...

    Miscellanea III
  • 2012
    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

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    Lauded artist-filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (Schindler's Houses) offers an exquisite excursus on the work of pioneering French architect Auguste Perret,...

    Perret in France and Algeria
  • 2001
    Maillart's Bridges

    Maillart's Bridges

    Maillart's Bridges

    4.82001HD

    Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his...

    Maillart's Bridges
  • 2017
    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    4.22017HD

    The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by...

    Dieste [Uruguay]
  • 2001
    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks

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    Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an...

    Sullivan's Banks
  • 2001
    The Basis of Make-Up II

    The Basis of Make-Up II

    The Basis of Make-Up II

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    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...

    The Basis of Make-Up II
  • 2003
    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

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    In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American...

    Goff in the Desert
  • 1976
    Wandsbek Gartenstück

    Wandsbek Gartenstück

    Wandsbek Gartenstück

    01976HD

    With Marcia Bronstein and Silke Grossmann. Hamburg, Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, May 1976.

    Wandsbek Gartenstück
  • 1975
    Stair Piece

    Stair Piece

    Stair Piece

    01975HD

    Experimental short about some stairs.

    Stair Piece