Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 2021
    Antivilla

    Antivilla

    Antivilla

    02021HD

    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...

    Antivilla
  • 2014
    Two Museums

    Two Museums

    Two Museums

    5.52014HD

    The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil...

    Two Museums
  • 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]
  • 2018
    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    02018HD

    A confrontation and comparison of two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between various concepts of church...

    Two Basilicas
  • 2003
    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    62003HD

    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
  • 2008
    Loos Ornamental

    Loos Ornamental

    Loos Ornamental

    02008HD

    One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in...

    Loos Ornamental
  • 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
  • 2001
    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks

    52001HD

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

    Sullivan's Banks
  • 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
  • 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]
  • 1975
    Stair Piece

    Stair Piece

    Stair Piece

    01975HD

    Experimental short about some stairs.

    Stair Piece
  • 1976
    Schenec-Tady III

    Schenec-Tady III

    Schenec-Tady III

    101976HD

    The elaborate copying work was carried out in Hamburg in 1975/76. The SCHENEC-TADY films are dedicated to Great Birnam Wood.

    Schenec-Tady III
  • 1974
    Arrowplane

    Arrowplane

    Arrowplane

    01974HD

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

    Arrowplane
  • 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
  • 1976
    Hotel

    Hotel

    Hotel

    01976HD

    Emigholz disrupts the linear narrative via editing, and then reconnects the shots based on recognizable patterns. In doing so, he brings new meaning...

    Hotel
  • 2001
    Miscellanea II

    Miscellanea II

    Miscellanea II

    8.52001HD

    Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997.

    Miscellanea II
  • 2001
    Miscellanea I

    Miscellanea I

    Miscellanea I

    02001HD

    Studies on 35mm b/w film from 1988 to 1997.

    Miscellanea I
  • 1977
    Demon

    Demon

    Demon

    51977HD

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

    Demon
  • 2007
    Schindler's Houses

    Schindler's Houses

    Schindler's Houses

    72007HD

    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...

    Schindler's Houses
  • 1975
    Tide

    Tide

    Tide

    01975HD

    The first part shows the progression from high tide to low tide in 15 minutes. The second, equally long part follows the changes from high tide to...

    Tide