Heinz Emigholz

Heinz Emigholz was born in 1948 outside of Bremen. Since 1973, he has worked in Germany and the United States as a freelance filmmaker, artist, writer, cameraman, producer and journalist. He looks back on numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures and publications. In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series „Die Bas is des Mak e-Up”, currently the subject of a major solo exhibition at Berlin‘s Hamburger Bahnhof museum. In 1978 he founded his own film production company, Pym Films. In 1984, he began a film series called „Photographie und jenseits“. He has held a professorship in „experimental filmmaking” at the Berlin University of the Arts since 1993. His films have been released on DVD by Filmgalerie 451 since 2003. His publications include: „Krieg der Augen“, „Kreuz der Sinne“, „Seit Freud gesagt hat, der Künstler heile seine Neurose selbst, heilen die Künstler ihre Neurosen selbst“, „Normalsatz – Siebzehn Filme“ and „Das schwarze Schamquadrat“ (all four published by Martin Schmitz), „Die Basis des Make-Up“ (I), (II ) and (III), „Der Begnadete Meier“ and „Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie“ (in Die Republik Nr. 68–71, 76–78, 89–91, 94–97, 123–125), „Die Basis des Make-Up“ (608 pp, Pym Films).

films
1972 – 1973 Schenec-Tady I (16 mm, s/w*, 27 Minuten)
1973 Schenec-Tady II (16 mm, Farbe*, 19 Minuten)
1973 – 1974 Arrowplane (16 mm, Farbe, 23 Minuten)
1974 Tide (16 mm, s/w, 34 Minuten)
1972 – 1975 Schenec-Tady III (16 mm, s/w, 20 Minuten)
1975 – 1976 Hotel (16 mm, s/w, 27 Minuten)
1976 – 1977 Demon – D ie Übersetzung von Stéphane Mallarmés
„Le Demon de l´Analogie“ (16 mm, Farbe, 30 min)
1978 – 1981 Normalsatz (16 mm, Farbe, 105 min)
1974 – 1983 The Basis of Make-Up I (35 mm, Farbe, 20 min)
1979 – 1985 Die Basis des Make-Up (16 mm, Farbe, 84 min)
1974 – 1987 Die Wiese der Sachen (16 mm, Farbe, 88 min)
1986 – 1990 Der Zynische Körper (35 mm, Farbe, 89 min)
1993 – 2000 Sullivans Banken (35 mm, Farbe, 38 min)
1983 – 2000 The Basis of Make-Up II (35 mm, Farbe, 48 min)
1995 – 2000 Maillarts Brück en (35 mm, Farbe, 24 min)
1988 – 2001 Miscellanea I (35mm, s/w, 20 min)
1988 – 2001 Miscellanea II (35 mm, Farbe, 19 min)
1998 – 2002 Goff in der Wüste (35 mm, Farbe, 110 min)
1997 – 2004 Miscellanea III (35mm, Farbe, 22 min)
1996 – 2004 The Basis of Make-Up III (35mm, Farbe, 26 min)
2002 – 2005 D´Annunzios Höhle (DigiBeta, Farbe, 52 min)
2005 – 2006 Architektur Laboratorium Steiermark
Über fünfzig Kurzfilme zum Projekt - over 50 short films for the project
„Sense of Architecture“ (35mm-HDV, Farbe, 330 min)
2006 – 2007 Schindlers Häuser (35 mm, Farbe, 99 min)
2006 – 2008 Loos Ornamental (35 mm, Farbe, 72 Minuten)

* s/w black & white I * Farbe color

An additional film from the “Photographie und jenseits” series, “Kieslers Projections” (ca. 70 min) will be completed in autumn 2008. The feature films „Tale of Five Cities” and “Second Nature” are currently in pre-production.