
Heinz Emigholz
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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.
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The Holy Bunch (1991)
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Slaughterhouses of Modernity (2023)
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D’Annunzio’s Cave (2005)
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![Bickels [Socialism]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg)
Bickels [Socialism] (2016)
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![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)
Streetscapes [Dialogue] (2017)
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Ordinary Sentence (1982)
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Antivilla (2021)
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Two Museums (2014)
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![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/xZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] (2017)
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![Dieste [Uruguay]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/iXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg)
Dieste [Uruguay] (2017)
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The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III (2014)
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The Last City (2021)
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Wandsbek Gartenstück (1976)
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The Meadow of Things (1988)
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Mamani in El Alto (2022)
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The Lobby (2020)
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The Suit (2024)
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Casa Golly (2021)
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Sullivan's Banks (2001)
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Perret in France and Algeria (2012)
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Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (2012)
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A Series of Thoughts (2011)
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Salamone, Pampa (2022)
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Ecce Mole (2025)
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Berlin [Underground] (2021)
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Miscellanea I (2001)
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The Basis of Make-Up II (2001)
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Loos Ornamental (2008)
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Hotel (1976)
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Two Basilicas (2018)
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Maillart's Bridges (2001)
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Schuhstück (1976)
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Years of Construction (2019)
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Demon (1977)
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Tide (1975)
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Stair Piece (1975)
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Miscellanea III (2005)
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Miscellanea II (2001)
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Cup Piece (1976)
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Ornament und Verbrechen (2009)
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Schindler's Houses (2007)
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Schenec-Tady I (1973)
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Goff in the Desert (2003)
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WEISS hoch ZWEI (2021)
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Die Basis des Make-Up (1985)
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The Basis of Make-Up I (1983)
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Arrowplane (1974)
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Winter (2013)
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Brooklyn Bathroom Piece (1975)
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Schenec-Tady II (1975)
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Schenec-Tady III (1976)
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Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler (2009)
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Sense of Architecture (2009)
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Innsbruck, March 6th 2023 (—)
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![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] (2016)
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The Basis of Make-Up III (2005)
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![Bickels [Socialism]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg)
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)