Heinz Emigholz Movies

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his...

A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.

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

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

Experimental short film set in a military environment.

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

A German TV movie

Documentary on the city of Berlin and a personal essay on alienation and being an alien in that city. Cyn­thia Beatt raises questions and...

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

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred...

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

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...

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

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...

Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] contrasts the Villa Savoye, built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn’s Grand Relief, which the...

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...

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...

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

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...