Films

Le Corbusier [|||||] Asger Jorn [Relief]

Film by Heinz Emigholz

The film contrasts the "Villa Savoye", built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn’s "Grand Relief", built in 1959.

Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] contrasts the Villa Savoye, built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn’s Grand Relief, which the Danish painter and sculptor produced in 1959 for the Århus Statsgymnasium. The film makes connections between what does not belong together, at least not according to the ideological stipulations of their creators.

“The film came about because I was intrigued by the premise of comparing two buildings that at first seem to have nothing to do with one another. A dialogue between thoroughly stylized clarity and declared wildness, both with ideologically trimmings. It was only by working on the film that I learned to appreciate the two works that had once left me indifferent: the delight of their creators in the productively implemented statement.” Heinz Emigholz

"All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it." (Walt Whitman)

PARABETON - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

Decampment of Modernism – Part I / Photography and beyond – Part 19
Heinz Emigholz, D 2011, 100 min

"By going back to the Roman origins of the constructional core of modernism PARABETON will be together with the upcoming PERRET-film the finale of my film series Architecture as Autobiography." (Heinz Emigholz)

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Parabeton (Stills) / Flyer / Berlinale Catalog

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