
Heinz Emigholz
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.
56 directing credits · 17 acting credits
Directing · 56

The Last City
2021
![Streetscapes [Dialogue]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2FlbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
2017

Two Museums
2014
![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2FxZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
2017

Mamani in El Alto
2022

The Holy Bunch
1991
Ornament und Verbrechen
2009

Salamone, Pampa
2022
Tide
1975

The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
2014
Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
2009

Two Basilicas
2018

Perret in France and Algeria
2012

Maillart's Bridges
2001
![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2F3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
2016

Loos Ornamental
2008
The Basis of Make-Up II
2001

Slaughterhouses of Modernity
2023

Sullivan's Banks
2001

Ecce Mole
2025
![Dieste [Uruguay]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2FiXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Dieste [Uruguay]
2017

Winter
2013
Schenec-Tady II
1975
WEISS hoch ZWEI
2021

Casa Golly
2021
![Bickels [Socialism]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw500%2F7l3LMzod0pJoDIlOlyne1jwOGYW.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Bickels [Socialism]
2016

Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
2012
Schenec-Tady I
1973

The Suit
2024

Die Basis des Make-Up
1985
Berlin [Underground]
2021
The Basis of Make-Up III
2005

The Lobby
2020

Cup Piece
1976
Hotel
1976

The Meadow of Things
1988
Miscellanea III
2005

Sense of Architecture
2009

Years of Construction
2019

Brooklyn Bathroom Piece
1975

Schindler's Houses
2007

Antivilla
2021

D’Annunzio’s Cave
2005
The Basis of Make-Up I
1983
Demon
1977

Ordinary Sentence
1982

Stair Piece
1975
Arrowplane
1974
A Series of Thoughts
2011

Goff in the Desert
2003
Miscellanea I
2001
Miscellanea II
2001

Wandsbek Gartenstück
1976
Schenec-Tady III
1976
Innsbruck, March 6th 2023
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Schuhstück
1976
Acting · 17

Stalingrad
1993

Brother of Sleep
1995

Exekution: A Study of Mary
1979

Saturn Returns
2009

Macumba
1982
Bombenwerfer
1996

Home Movies 1971-81
1985

Four Shadows
1978

Slaughterhouses of Modernity
2023

Fury Is a Feeling Too
1984

Der Ort der Handlung
1977

Bartleby
1976

The Meadow of Things
1988

Ordinary Sentence
1982

Committed
1984

Die blaue Distanz
1983
Sons
1992