Films

THE FORMATIVE YEARS – Extended Version
Ten films (1972–2004) by Heinz Emigholz

SCHENEC-TADY I – 1972/73, b/w, 40 minutes, silent
SCHENEC-TADY II – 1973, color, 19 minutes, silent
ARROWPLANE – 1973/74, color, 24 minutes, silent
TIDE – 1974, b/w, 34 minutes, silent
SCHENEC-TADY III – 1972/75, b/w, 25 minutes, silent
HOTEL – 1975/76, b/w, 27 minutes, silent and synch-sound
DEMON – 1976/77, b/w and color, 29 minutes, synch-sound
THE BASIS OF MAKE-UP I-III – 1974/2004, color, 94 minutes, sound

An installation of ten films (1972-2004) at EXTRA CITY – KUNSTHAL ANTWERPEN, September 17th until October 31st, 2010. All films on three DVDs with interviews etc. released by Filmgalerie 451.

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THE FORMATIVE YEARS

Die Wiese der Sachen

„To whom in love of Nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks of a various language.“ William Cullen Bryant

Clonetown, 1974 bis 1979. Die Chronik eines Abschieds. Charon, ein abgesprungener Terrorist (Eckhard Rhode), sitzt am Ufer zur Vergessenheit und kommentiert die bevorstehende Vermoderung eines entführten Autohändlers. Er hätte auch gern einen Körper gehabt. In seiner Erinnerung ziehen seine zweiten und dritten Ichs herauf, der megalomanische Künstler und der perverse Teppichhändler (John Erdman).

Abb.: Claus Wilhelm Klinker, Eckhard Rhode, Klaus Dufke

Miscellanea III

MISCELLANEA (III) shows the portal, designed by Louis H. Sullivan, to the Chicago Stock Exchange on Monroe Street in Chicago, which was erected in 1894 and torn down in 1972; ruins of a glass factory in Henryetta, Oklahoma, from which Bruce Goff bought the colorful pieces of glass he often used; a railway bridge over a creek in the desert on Highway 62; the General Patton Memorial Museum on Interstate Highway 10 and an intersection in Twentynine Palms, California; "Gateway West" - the Mexican border - and City Hall in El Paso, New Mexico; a study of downtown Oklahoma City and the national memorial designed by Hans Butzer in honor of the people killed in the bombing of the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995; the Community Center designed by William Wesley Peters in 1982 and Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower from 1956 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; the Tower and geodesic Gold Dome that Robert B. Roloff built in 1958 in Oklahoma City from Buckminster Fuller's plans;the jungle gym Bruce Goff built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1963 for children; a Lockheed T-33, the training version of the first twin-jet US fighter plane, built on a German model, exhibited as a sculpture in front of the Center of Commerce in Del Rio, Texas; three buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright from the 1920s, in which Bruce Goff had a hand; the oldest cement fence in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the oldest brick silo near Bartlesville, and a concrete schoolhouse from the 1920s in Dewey, Oklahoma; the burial sites of Louis H. Sullivan and Bruce Goff in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago; the warship "Puglia" built into a mountain slope on the grounds of Gabriele d'Annunzio's mausoleum, the "Vittoriale" in Gardone on Lake Garda - his body and those of ten loyal followers in sarcophagi on marble steles, high above Lake Garda. The footage from the US was taken in April and May 2002 during the filming of Goff in the Desert; the footage from the "Vittoriale" is from March 24, 1997 in preparation for the project D'Annunzio's CAVE.

Img 1: Sullivan's Arch in Chicago, USA

Img 2: Downtown Oklahoma City, USA

D'Annunzio's Cave

"D’Annunzio’s Cave" shows fifteen rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele d’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death. The villa is part of the “Vittoriale”, a museum-like theme park honoring d’Annunzio that d’Annunzio himself and his personal architect Giancarlo Maroni spent almost two decades designing and furnishing. In 1997, Heinz Emigholz began documenting various rooms of the villa on 35mm film (some of this footage can now be seen in the film "The Basis of Make-Up III"), but he interrupted this project. In 2002, he took it up again in connection with the production of the film "Goff in the Desert".