Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 2014
    Two Museums

    Two Museums

    Two Museums

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    The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil...

    Two Museums
  • 2024
    The Suit

    The Suit

    The Suit

    02024HD

    That loquacious cynic known as “Old White Male,” played by John Erdman in Heinz Emigholz’s 2020 film The Lobby, returns in this...

    The Suit
  • 1984
    Committed

    Committed

    Committed

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    Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

    Committed
  • 1970
    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

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    Bombenwerfer
  • 2012
    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

    5.82012HD

    The third autobiography in the series deals with modern architecture. For the grand finale, he covers a broad historical spectrum: Parabeton tells of...

    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
  • 2023
    Slaughterhouses of Modernity

    Slaughterhouses of Modernity

    Slaughterhouses of Modernity

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    Contemporary cinema’s preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz...

    Slaughterhouses of Modernity
  • 2014
    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

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    In the 21st part of his Photography and beyond series, Heinz Emigholz projects as usual a series of structures into our brains and from there on to...

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
  • 2001
    Miscellanea II

    Miscellanea II

    Miscellanea II

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    Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997.

    Miscellanea II
  • 2017
    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

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    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]
  • 1983
    Die blaue Distanz

    Die blaue Distanz

    Die blaue Distanz

    01983HD

    A woman on a train.

    Die blaue Distanz
  • 2018
    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    02018HD

    A confrontation and comparison of two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between various concepts of church...

    Two Basilicas
  • 1982
    Ordinary Sentence

    Ordinary Sentence

    Ordinary Sentence

    01982HD

    An experimental German film

    Ordinary Sentence
  • 2005
    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    D’Annunzio’s Cave

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    Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of...

    D’Annunzio’s Cave
  • 1988
    The Meadow of Things

    The Meadow of Things

    The Meadow of Things

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    Clonetown 1974 to 1979: a terrorist defector named Charon sits on the edge of oblivion and commentates on the imminent putrification of an abducted...

    The Meadow of Things
  • 2009
    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

    Two Projects by Friedrich Kiesler

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    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
  • 2003
    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

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    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
  • 2008
    Loos Ornamental

    Loos Ornamental

    Loos Ornamental

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    One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in...

    Loos Ornamental
  • 2001
    Maillart's Bridges

    Maillart's Bridges

    Maillart's Bridges

    4.82001HD

    Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his...

    Maillart's Bridges
  • 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
  • 2020
    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    02020HD

    “There is no Here here.” A character simply named Old White Male (John Erdman) holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings...

    The Lobby