Heinz Emigholz
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing56
movieEcce Mole
2025
Director
movieThe Suit
2024
Director
movieSalamone, Pampa
2022
Director
movieMamani in El Alto
2022
Director
movieThe Last City
2021
Director
movieCasa Golly
2021
Director
movieAntivilla
2021
Director
movieThe Lobby
2020
Director
movieYears of Construction
2019
Director
movieTwo Basilicas
2018
Director
![Dieste [Uruguay]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg)
movieDieste [Uruguay]
2017
Director
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)
movieStreetscapes [Dialogue]
2017
Director
![Bickels [Socialism]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg)
movieBickels [Socialism]
2016
Director
![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg)
movieTwo Museums
2014
Director
movieWinter
2013
Director
movieSense of Architecture
2009
Director
movieLoos Ornamental
2008
Director
movieSchindler's Houses
2007
Director
movieD’Annunzio’s Cave
2005
Director
movieGoff in the Desert
2003
Director
movieSullivan's Banks
2001
Director
movieMaillart's Bridges
2001
Director
movieThe Holy Bunch
1991
Director
movieThe Meadow of Things
1988
Director
movieDie Basis des Make-Up
1985
Director
movieOrdinary Sentence
1982
Director
Demon
1977
Director
movieWandsbek Gartenstück
1976
Director
movieSchuhstück
1976
Director
movieCup Piece
1976
Director
Hotel
1976
Director
movieBrooklyn Bathroom Piece
1975
Director
Tide
1975
Director
movieStair Piece
1975
Director
Arrowplane
1974
Director
movieInnsbruck, March 6th 2023
Director
Writing23
Acting17
movieSlaughterhouses of Modernity
2023
(voice over)
movieStalingrad
1993
Edgar Emigholz
Sons
1992
Man with Knife
movieCommitted
1984
Dr. Kraus
movieDie blaue Distanz
1983
Voice at telephone
movieMacumba
1982
Vinzenz Nola
movieExekution: A Study of Mary
1979
Narrator (voice)
Editing13
movieThe Last City
2021
Editor
movieAntivilla
2021
Editor
Camera10
movieDer Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben
2023
Director of Photography
movieThe Last City
2021
Director of Photography
movieDieste [Uruguay]
2017
Director of Photography
![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg)
movie2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
2017
Director of Photography
movieBickels [Socialism]
2016
Director of Photography
movieThe Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
2014
Director of Photography
movieTwo Museums
2014
Camera Operator
movieD’Annunzio’s Cave
2005
Director of Photography
movieThe Holy Bunch
1991
Director of Photography
movieShe Must Be Seeing Things
1987
Director of Photography
Crew9
movieSlaughterhouses of Modernity
2023
Cinematography
movieMamani in El Alto
2022
Cinematography
movieAntivilla
2021
Cinematography
movieStreetscapes [Dialogue]
2017
Cinematography
The Basis of Make-Up II
2001
Cinematography
movieVirgin Machine
1989
Thanks
movieCommitted
1984
Cinematography
The Basis of Make-Up I
1983
Cinematography