LOOS ORNAMENTAL

PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND, part 13

A Film by Heinz Emigholz

Austria 2008 l 72 min l colour l 35mm l 1:1:37 l Dolby Digital

Concept, Directing, Camera and Editing: Heinz Emigholz
Camera Assistent: Volkmar Geiblinger, Till Beckmann
Production Manager: Alexander Glehr
Production Coordinator: Christine Gloggengiesser, Alfie Kral
Commissioning Editors: Johanna Hanslmayer (ORF), Jutta Krug (WDR III), Reinhard Wulf (WDR/3sat)
Labs: Synchro Film & Video GmbH Wien
Producers: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Produced by AMOUR FOU and KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production in cooperation with Heinz Emigholz Filmproduction Berlin

Produced with the support of Vienna Film Fund and Innovative Film Austria,
In coproduction with ORF, WDR III, WDR/3sat and Kultur Niederösterreich

World Premiere: Berlinale - International Forum of New Cinema 2008

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Architecture as autobiography: the film presents twenty seven building and rooms by the Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870 - 1933) in the chronological order in which they were created. What can be seen and experienced is the unfolding of Loos' conception of space, his understanding of material and the development of his almost modular way of building. Shot in Vienna, Lower Austria, Paris and the Czech Republic, the film shows all the buildings in their present state and is thus also a documentation of the fate of modern architecture.

Festivals
Arts&film Festival Prague (24.6. - 26.6.2010)
Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film (17.3. - 22.3.2009)
Viennale Vienna International Film Festival (17.10. - 29.10.2008)
Duisburger Filmwoche (3.11. - 9.11.2008)
Dresdner Architekturfilmtage (12.6. - 18.6.2008)
Vancouver International Film Festival (25.9. - 10.10.2008)
Festival Era New Horizons Wroclaw (17.7. - 27.7.2008)
Seattle International Film Festival (22.5. - 15.6.2008)
DOK.FEST München (1.5. - 7.5.2008)
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (8.4. - 20.4.2008)
Berlinale - International Forum of New Cinema (7.2. - 17.2.2008)