Biography
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.
Filmography
all 73
Movies 73
Director 52
Narrator 1
The Suit (2024)
Der Maler Philip Guston – Ein amerikanisches Leben (2023)
Salamone, Pampa (2022)
Mamani in El Alto (2022)
The Last City (2021)
Berlin [Underground] (2021)
WEISS hoch ZWEI (2021)
Casa Golly (2021)
Antivilla (2021)
The Lobby (2020)
Two Basilicas (2018)
Dieste [Uruguay] (2017)
Bickels [Socialism] (2016)
Two Museums (2014)
Winter (2013)
A Series of Thoughts (2011)
Saturn Returns (2009)
Loos Ornamental (2008)
Schindler's Houses (2007)
D’Annunzio’s Cave (2005)
Miscellanea III (2005)
Goff in the Desert (2003)
Miscellanea II (2001)
Miscellanea I (2001)
Maillart's Bridges (2001)
Sullivan's Banks (2001)
The Holy Bunch (1991)
She Must Be Seeing Things (1987)
Committed (1984)
Die blaue Distanz (1983)
The Luncheon of the Hyena (1982)
Macumba (1982)
Demon (1977)
Schuhstück (1976)
Wandsbek Gartenstück (1976)
Cup Piece (1976)
Schenec-Tady III (1976)
Hotel (1976)
Schenec-Tady II (1975)
Tide (1975)
Stair Piece (1975)
Arrowplane (1974)
Schenec-Tady I (1973)
Innsbruck, March 6th 2023
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GenderMale
Birthday1948-01-22 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceAchim, Germany
CitizenshipsGermany
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