Films

Early Short Films
(1972-77)

The Formative Years

Early Silent Films

Schenec-Tady I
Schenec-Tady II
Arrowplane
Tide
Schenec-Tady III

Early Sound Films

Hotel
Demon

Feature Films
(1974-91)

Ordinary Sentence
Die Basis des Make-Up
The Meadow of Things
The Holy Bunch

Trilogy of the Seventies

Ordinary Sentence
Die Basis des Make-Up
The Meadow of Things

The Basis of Make-Up 35mm
(1974-2004)

The Basis of Make-Up I
The Basis of Make-Up II
The Basis of Make-Up III

Architecture as Autobiography
(1993-2008)

Sullivan's Banks
Maillart's Bridges
Goff in the Desert
D'Annunzio's Cave
Schindler's Houses
Loos Ornamental
Parabeton
Perret in France and Algeria
Bickels [Socialism]
Dieste [Uruguay]

Miscellanea
(1988-2010)

Miscellanea I
Miscellanea II
Miscellanea III
Miscellanea IV A Museum in Essen
Miscellanea V El Greco in Toledo
Miscellanea VI Leonardo's Tears
Miscellanea VII On Board the USS Ticonderoga
A Series of Thoughts
Berlin Stories

Photography and beyond
(1974-2013)

The Basis of Make-Up I
Sullivan's Banks
Maillart's Bridges
The Basis of Make-Up II
Miscellanea I
Miscellanea II
Goff in the Desert
D'Annunzio's Cave
The Basis of Make-Up III
Miscellanea III
Schindler's Houses
Loos ornamental
Sense of Architecture
Two Projects by Frederick Kiesler
Miscellanea IV A Museum in Essen
Miscellanea V El Greco in Toledo
Miscellanea VI Leonardo's Tears
Miscellanea VII On Board the USS Ticonderoga
Parabeton
Perret in France and Algeria
The Airstrip
Two Museums
Le Corbusier [|||||] Asger Jorn [Relief]
2+2=22 [The Alphabet]
Bickels [Socialism]
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Dieste [Uruguay]
Two Basilicas

Miscellanea I

Detail aus Miscellanea I

Photography and beyond - Part 5

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

Raw meat at Cabo de Creus and the ruins of "Sant Pere de Rodes" in the Spanish Pyrenees, filmed on October 7 and 11, 1988. Eckhard Rhode, Kyle deCamp and John Erdman at Georges Rodenbach's grave at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris on September 27, 1988. Eckhard Rhode translates the inscription on the tombstone: "Lord, give me hope to live on in the melancholic eternity of the book". This footage was made while shooting the feature film "Der Zynische Körper (The Holy Bunch)", in which the scene was not included. The power stations "Humboldt" and "Wilhelmsruh", built by Hans Heinrich Müller in 1926 in Berlin - their interaction with the set-designs in Fritz Lang's "Mabuse" films and "Metropolis" is still felt today - filmed on April 9 and 10, 1997. Jochen Nickel at Heinz Emigholz's exhibition "Die Basis des Make-Up 1974-1994" in the Hamburg Kunsthalle on July 1, 1994. Views of plane trees in Barcelona with Eckhard Rhode on October 4, 1988 - a congenial relationship between the coulour nuances of tree bark and stones and Kodak's Plus X b/w film. The tympanum of Auguste Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" at the Zurich Kunsthaus on October 30, 1988. Hans Etter had scaffolding put up in the front of the sculpture so we could film details not visible from street level. The bronze casting of "La Porte de L'Enfer" in Zurich was done in the 40s near Paris during the German occupation and was a present of the Nazi government to the Swiss arms manufacturer Bührle - as thanks for the good business relationship and the delivery of anti-aircraft guns.

Abb: Detail aus ›La Porte de l'Enfer‹ von Auguste Rodin in Zürich

The Basis of Make-Up II

Centerfold von Heft 66, 7. Mai bis 3. September 1988 The Basis of Make-Up II
Photography and beyond - Part 4

Drawings and writings by Heinz Emigholz

"Basis film and master tape" for the feature films "The Holy Bunch (Der Zynische Körper)", "Second Nature" and "Black Harbour".

Featured are are sixty-nine of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1983 to 1996, three sketch books from the 80s and 90s, and cinematic studies of his exhibition "Der Untergang der Bismarck" at the Zwinger Gallery, Berlin 1988, a castle moat in Riva, Italy 1997, a casting of Aguste Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" in front of the Kunsthaus in Zürich 1988, an olive grove near Norma in Italy 1995, a magnolia tree in Basle 1996, burnt meat at Cabo de Creus in the Pyrennees 1988, an i9ntersection in Owatonna, Minnesota 1995, and a house underpass in Giesshübelstrasse, Zurich 1996. In addition, there are 184 drawings from the series "Die Basis des Make-Up" as positives and negatives.

Maillart's Bridges

Lagerhaus von 1910 an der Giesshübelstrasse in Zürich, Schweiz, am 15. April 1996 Maillart's Bridges

The film shows fourteen concrete roof constructions and bridges designed and built by Robert Maillart between 1910 and 1935: The warehouse on Zurich's Giesshübelstrasse (1910), the filter building in Rorschach (1912), the Maggazini Generali warehouse in Chiasso (1924), the aqueduct near Chatelard (1925), the bridge over the Valtschielbach (1925), Salginatobel Bridge (1930), Spital Bridge (1931), the bridges over the Bohlbach and the Rossgraben Bridge (all 1932), the bridge over the Schwandbach and the Thur Bridge near Felsegg (both 1933), the footbridge over the River Toess in Winterthur (1934) and the Arvebrücke near Geneva (1935). Shooting took place in April 1996.

Img 1: Warehouse (1910) at the Giesshübel Strasse in Zurich, Switzerland, April 15, 1996

Sullivan's Banks

National Farmer´s Bank von 1908 in Owatonna, Minnesota, am 23. März 1995 Sullivan's Banks

"All buildings have arisen, have stood, and stand as physical symbols of the psychic state of the people ... throughout the past and the present, each building stands as a social act", Sullivan wrote in the 1906 essay 'What is Architecture'.

"In everything that men do they leave an indelible imprint of their minds. If this suggestion be followed out, it will become surprisingly clear how each and every building reveals itself naked to the eye; how its every aspect, to the smallest detail, to the lightest move of the hand, reveals the workings of the mind of the man who made it, and who is responsible to us for it."

The Basis of Make-Up I

The Basis of Make-Up I
Photography and beyond - Part 1

Drawings and writings by Heinz Emigholz.

Basis film and master tape for the feature films ›Normalsatz‹, ›Die Basis des Make-Up‹ and ›Die Wiese der Sachen‹.

Featured are forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1974 to 1983, a notebook of Heinrich Emigholz dated 1941, a sketchbook from the 70s, twenty-four photographs from 100 Hudson Street, 240 President Street, 325 West 11th Street, Kleine Reichenstrasse 2, 36 Sherman Street, 236 Elizabeth Street, 29 John Street and Zippelhaus 6. In addition, there are eighty drawings from thze series ›Die Basis des Make-Up‹ as positives and negatives.

Schindler's Houses

Toole House (1946) in Palm Desert

Schindler's Houses

"Schindler’s Houses" shows forty buildings by the Austro-American architect Rudolph Schindler from the years 1931 to 1952. Schindler’s pioneering work in Southern California is the cornerstone of a branch of modern architecture. All the material for the film was shot in May 2006. The film is thus also an up-to-date portrait of urban life in Los Angeles that has never been documented in this form before.

”Architecture projects space into this world. Cinemaphotography translates that space into pictures projected in time. Cinema then is used in a completely new way: as a space to meditate on buildungs.“ Heinz Emigholz

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Schindlers Häuser

Loos ornamental

Haus am Michaelerplatz, Wien LOOS ORNAMENTAL

The film shows 27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) in order of their construction. Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist architecture. His vehement turn against ornamentation on buildings triggered a controversy in architectural theory. The development of his “spatial plan” launched a new way of thinking about spaces to be built.

His houses, furniture for shops and apartments, facades, and monuments were built between 1899 and 1931. They were filmed in 2006 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Nachod, and Paris in their present surroundings.

Sense of Architecture

SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE
Photography and beyond – Part 11
Photographie und jenseits – Teil 11

Film by Heinz Emigholz

Austria/Germany 2009, HDV, 168 min

Premiere: BERLINALE, February 6, 2009

The film SENSE OF ARCHITECTURE shows 42 contemporary architectural projects of Austrian origins. Shooting took place between June 2005 and November 2006. As an independent work, the film emerged from the material for 57 short films that Heinz Emigholz produced for the traveling exhibition conceived in Graz, Sense of Architecture.

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Two projects by Friedrich Kiesler

„The Shrine of the Book“ (1959-1965) in Jerusalem von Frederick Kiesler und Armand Bartos in ZWEI PROJEKTE VON FREDERICK KIESLER von Heinz Emigholz (2009)

TWO PROJECTS BY FREDERICK KIESLER
Photography and beyond – Part 14

Film by Heinz Emigholz
Austria/Germany 2006/09
HDV, screen ratio 4:3, 16 minutes

The Film explores two projects by Austrian artist und visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is currently exhibited at the Kiesler Foundation in Vienna and THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK designed and built by Frederick Kiesler and Armand Bartos in Jerusalem (1959-65). The film was shot in June 2006. The film is the third part of a trilogy of films dealing with the buildings of Adolf Loos, Rudolph M. Schindler und Frederick Kiesler.

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Die Basis des Make-Up

John Erdman und Claus-Wilhelm Klinker Die Basis des Make-Up

Belgien, am 9. Oktober 1979. Ein Koch (Bernd Broaderup) bohrt ein Loch in die Tür zur camera obscura seines Chefs (John Erdman), einem persisch-amerikanischen Teppichhändler. Dieser haust mit zwei befreundeten Frauen (Carola Regnier, Silke Grossmann) und einem selbstverliebten Trinker (Kiev Stingl) neben den hellen Räumen seiner Bediensteten (Eckhard Rhode, Claus-Wilhelm Klinker) in einer düsteren Teppichhöhle. Auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen beruflichem und privatem Dasein, Abhängigkeiten und Machtausübung, versucht jeder, seinen Deal mit der Liebe über Wasser zu halten.

Abb.: John Erdman und Claus-Wilhelm Klinker

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