
Heinz Emigholz
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 22, 1948 (age 78)
- Birthplace
- Achim, Germany
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.
Known For
Filmography

Innsbruck, March 6th 2023
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Ecce Mole
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The Suit
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Slaughterhouses of Modernity
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Mamani in El Alto
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Salamone, Pampa
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Antivilla
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Casa Golly
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Berlin [Underground]
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WEISS hoch ZWEI
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The Last City
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The Lobby
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Years of Construction
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Two Basilicas
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![Streetscapes [Dialogue] poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/lbaDCCZJ6xwvNLO5qFDBmjnjaOH.jpg)
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
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![2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet] poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/xZmFnEC2gNQq2NjIpoLYaws5TRO.jpg)
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
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![Dieste [Uruguay] poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iXdwycGTb426h8wf5Ogr8PD0UDh.jpg)
Dieste [Uruguay]
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Bickels [Socialism]
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![Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3kc0g7jiQ3N93Lg2mx9kPM3iE9H.jpg)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]
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The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
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Two Museums
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Winter
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Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
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Perret in France and Algeria
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A Series of Thoughts
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Sense of Architecture
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Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler
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Ornament und Verbrechen
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Loos Ornamental
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Schindlers Häuser
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D’Annunzio’s Cave
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The Basis of Make-Up III
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Miscellanea III
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Goff in the Desert
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Sullivan's Banks
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Maillart's Bridges
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The Basis of Make-Up II
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Miscellanea I
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Miscellanea II
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The Holy Bunch
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The Meadow of Things
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Die Basis des Make-Up
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The Basis of Make-Up I
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Ordinary Sentence
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Demon
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Hotel
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Schenec-Tady III
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Wandsbek Gartenstück
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Cup Piece
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Schuhstück
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Tide
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Schenec-Tady II
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Stair Piece
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Brooklyn Bathroom Piece
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Arrowplane
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Schenec-Tady I
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