PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND
PHOTOGRAPHIE UND JENSEITS

A series of films by Heinz Emigholz

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Photographie und Jenseits is a film series about writing, drawing, sculpture, and architecture.

The films' subject-matter are achievements in active design and projection—ideas that have been made real—and are visible as writing, drawing, photography, architecture, and sculpture. What is being analysed is a way of seeing that is almost reversed – seeing as expression, not impression. The eye as the interface between the brain and the external world; the gaze as the energy of composing that turns the inside out and presents a mirrored reality.

By means of filmic analysis of architecture and sculpture something indescribable is formed from documented and animated notebooks and sketchbooks: a film about the objectification of mental ideas and images.

© Frederick Kiesler, Study for Endless House, 1958-60,
Österreichische Frederick und Lilian Kiesler Privatstiftung, Wien

Three films were realised as part of Heinz Emigholz' series Photographie and beyond, dealing with buildings and projects by Austrian architects, produced by AMOUR FOU and KGP (Vienna) in collaboration with Heinz Emigholz Filmproduktion (Berlin). The films were realised in the style of the already completed films of the series, Sullivan's Banks, Maillart's Bridges and the award-winning Goff in the Desert.

Schindler's Houses
Photography and beyond, part 12
Austria 2007 l 99 min l colour l 35mm l 1:1:37 l Dolby Digital
Architecture as autobiography - Rudolph Schindler (1887 - 1953)
Cinematographic documentation of his residential buildings located in Los Angeles and its environs. Indoors and outdoors shots.

Loos Ornamental
Photography and beyond, part 13
Austria 2008 l 72 min l colour l 35mm l 1:1:37 l Dolby Digital
Interior design as autobiography - Adolf Loos (1870 - 1933)
Against the grain: material as an ornament. Documentation of the interiors designed by Loos that are still available.

Two Projects by Frederick Kiesler
Photography and beyond, part 14
Austria 2009 l 16 min l colour l DigiBeta l 1:1:66
Architecture as an autobiography - Frederick Kiesler (1890 - 1965)
Realities of visions: the Endless House as an architectural project, and his realised project, the Jerusalem Shrine of the Book.