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Heinz Emigholz

Actor, Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn January 22, 1948 (77 years)
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

  • Stalingrad
  • The Last City
  • Loos Ornamental
  • 2+2=22: The Alphabet
  • Schindler's Houses
  • Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
  • The Holy Bunch
  • Perret in France and Algeria
  • Years of Construction
  • Saturn Returns

Heinz Emigholz Filmography

2009
Saturn Returns · as Edgar
1998
Mammamia · as Cast
1995
Brother of Sleep · as Haintz
1993
Stalingrad · as Edgar Emigholz
1984
Committed · as Dr. Kraus
1982
Macumba · as Vinzenz Nola
1970
Tatort (TV Series) · as Lehrer Neuroth

2020
The Last City · as Director Of Photography
2019
Years of Construction · as Cinematographer
2018
Two Basilicas · as Cinematographer
2017
2+2=22: The Alphabet · as Director Of Photography
2017
Streetscapes · as Cinematographer
2017
Bickels: Socialism · as Director Of Photography
2012
Perret in France and Algeria · as Cinematographer
2012
2008
Loos Ornamental · as Cinematographer
2007
Schindler's Houses · as Cinematographer
2005
D'Annunzio's Cave · as Director Of Photography
2003
Goff in the Desert · as Cinematographer
1991
The Holy Bunch · as Director Of Photography
1987
She Must Be Seeing Things · as Director Of Photography
1984
Committed · as Cinematographer

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