Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 2025
    Ecce Mole

    Ecce Mole

    Ecce Mole

    02025HD

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

    Ecce Mole
  • 2009
    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    02009HD

    The film explores two projects by Austrian artist and visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is...

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    71978HD

    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 2017
    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    4.42017HD

    The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by...

    Dieste [Uruguay]
  • 1989
    Virgin Machine

    Virgin Machine

    Virgin Machine

    4.71989HD

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

    Virgin Machine
  • 2021
    Casa Golly

    Casa Golly

    Casa Golly

    02021HD

    The films of pre-eminent documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz present the most important architects of the 20th century not through explanation or...

    Casa Golly
  • 1977
    Demon

    Demon

    Demon

    51977HD

    DEMON, subtitled „The Translation of Stéphane Mallarmé´s THE DEMON OF ANALOGY“, includes the Mallarmé text,...

    Demon
  • 2003
    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    62003HD

    In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American...

    Goff in the Desert
  • 1983
    The Basis of Make-Up I

    The Basis of Make-Up I

    The Basis of Make-Up I

    01983HD

    Forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1974 to 1983, a notebook of Heinrich Emigholz dated 1941, a sketchbook from the 70s,...

    The Basis of Make-Up I
  • 1996
    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

    01996HD

    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...

    Bombenwerfer
  • 2016
    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]

    5.52016HD

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

    Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
  • 2021
    Berlin [Underground]

    Berlin [Underground]

    Berlin [Underground]

    02021HD

    A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg’s...

    Berlin [Underground]
  • 1976
    Schuhstück

    Schuhstück

    Schuhstück

    01976HD

    Short film by Heinz Emigholz shot in 1976; b/w, sound, no dialogue

    Schuhstück
  • 2021
    Antivilla

    Antivilla

    Antivilla

    02021HD

    The film shows the Antivilla built by Arno Brandlhuber in Potsdam, Krampnitz, between 2010 and 2015. The building has the project number 0131 in the...

    Antivilla
  • 2011
    A Series of Thoughts

    A Series of Thoughts

    A Series of Thoughts

    02011HD

    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 Series of Thoughts
  • 2009
    Sense of Architecture

    Sense of Architecture

    Sense of Architecture

    02009HD

    A passage through modern civilised life by way of 42 architectural projects in Austria and elsewhere. From a church belfry to a kindergarten,...

    Sense of Architecture
  • 2012
    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    72012HD

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

    Perret in France and Algeria
  • 1976
    Schenec-Tady III

    Schenec-Tady III

    Schenec-Tady III

    101976HD

    The elaborate copying work was carried out in Hamburg in 1975/76. The SCHENEC-TADY films are dedicated to Great Birnam Wood.

    Schenec-Tady III
  • 1985
    Die Basis des Make-Up

    Die Basis des Make-Up

    Die Basis des Make-Up

    101985HD

    Belgium, 9th october 1979. A cook drills a hole in the door to the "camera obscura" (lat. dark room) of his boss, a persian-american carpet dealer,...

    Die Basis des Make-Up
  • 1970
    Innsbruck, March 6th 2023

    Innsbruck, March 6th 2023

    Innsbruck, March 6th 2023

    01970HD

    Filmed on March 6, 2023 between 19:11 and 19:27.

    Innsbruck, March 6th 2023