Schindler's Houses
Schindlers Häuser

PHOTOGRAPHY AND BEYOND, part 12

A Film by Heinz Emigholz

Austria 2007 l 99 min l colour l 35mm l 1:1:37 l Dolby Digital

Writer, cinematographer, editor and director: Heinz Emigholz
Sound: May Rigler
Camera Assistant: Volkmar Geiblinger
Editing Assistant: Markus Ruff
Sounddesign: Jochen Jezussek, Christian Obermaier
Speaker: Christian Reiner
Sound Mix: Eckard Goebel
Titles: Martin Putz
Bookkeeping: Heide Semmelrock
Production Coordinator USA: May Rigler
Production Manager: Alexander Glehr
Commissioning Editors: Johanna Hanslmayr (ORF), Jutta Krug (WDR), Reinhard Wulf (WDR/3sat),
Camera rental: Otto Nemenz Los Angeles
Labs: Fotokem Burbank, Synchro Film & Video GmbH Wien
Producers: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Produced by AMOUR FOU Wien in collaboration with Heinz Emigholz Filmproduktion Berlin

Produced with the support of Vienna Film Fund and Innovative Film Austria
In collaboration with ORF Film-/Televisionagreement and in co-production with WDR/3sat

World Premiere: Berlinale - International Forum of New Cinema 2007

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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.

Director's statement
"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

Festivals
Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film (17.3. - 22.3.2009)
Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival (19.2. - 2.3.2008)
Frame Minneapolis (16.2. - 17.2.2008)
Film Comment Selects New York (15.2. - 28.2.2008)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Bilbao (26.11. - 1.12.2007)
Duisburger Filmwoche (5.11. - 11.11.2007)
Viennale Vienna International Film Festival (19.10. - 31.10.2007)
Vancouver International Film Festival (27.9. - 12.10.2007)
Toronto International Film Festival (6.9. - 15.9.2007)
Festival Era New Horizons Wroclaw (19.7. - 29.7.2007)
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (3.4. - 15.4.2007)
Mar del Plata International Film Festival (8.3. - 18.3.2007)
Berlinale - Internationales Forum des Jungen Film (8.2. - 18.2.2007)