Heinz Emigholz Movies
- 1993
Stalingrad
Stalingrad7.31993HD
A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed...
- 1995
Brother of Sleep
Brother of Sleep6.7341995HD
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered...
- 1989
Virgin Machine
Virgin Machine4.51989HD
A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.
- 1979
Execution: A Story of Mary
Execution: A Story of Mary51979HD
This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...
- 1987
She Must Be Seeing Things
She Must Be Seeing Things4.9171987HD
Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads...
- 2017
Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Streetscapes [Dialogue]5.52017HD
A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces....
- 2012
Perret in France and Algeria
Perret in France and Algeria72012HD
Lauded artist-filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (Schindler's Houses) offers an exquisite excursus on the work of pioneering French architect Auguste Perret,...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 2017
Dieste [Uruguay]
Dieste [Uruguay]4.22017HD
The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by...
- 2024
The Suit
The Suit02024HD
That loquacious cynic known as “Old White Male,” played by John Erdman in Heinz Emigholz’s 2020 film The Lobby, returns in this...
- 2019
Years of Construction
Years of Construction6.62019HD
Demolition of the old and building of the new Kunsthalle in Mannheim in the years 2013 to 2018.
- 1978
Four Shadows
Four Shadows71978HD
Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...
- 2016
Bickels [Socialism]
Bickels [Socialism]4.42016HD
The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre...
- 2012
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete5.82012HD
The third autobiography in the series deals with modern architecture. For the grand finale, he covers a broad historical spectrum: Parabeton tells of...
- 2009
Saturn Returns
Saturn Returns5.52009HD
Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek....
- 2021
The Last City
The Last City02021HD
An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the...
- 2001
Sullivan's Banks
Sullivan's Banks52001HD
Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an...
- 2020
The Lobby
The Lobby02020HD
“There is no Here here.” A character simply named Old White Male (John Erdman) holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings...
- 2017
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]4.82017HD
Worn-down pavements, broken paving stones. Trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi...
- 1973
Schenec-Tady I
Schenec-Tady I81973HD
Experimental short.