Heinz Emigholz Movies

A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust...

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

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

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The...

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

Studies on 35mm b/w film from 1988 to 1997.

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

Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997.

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

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his...

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

Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek....

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

A woman on a train.

Documentary on the city of Berlin and a personal essay on alienation and being an alien in that city. Cyn­thia Beatt raises questions and...

A Series of Thoughts consists of four shorts: EL GRECO IN TOLEDO, LEONARDOS TRÄNEN, AN BORD DER USS TICONDEROGA and EIN MUSEUMSBAU IN ESSEN.

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,...

Demolition of the old and building of the new Kunsthalle in Mannheim in the years 2013 to 2018.

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