Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 1993
    Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    7.3181993HD

    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...

    Stalingrad
  • 2021
    The Last City

    The Last City

    The Last City

    02021HD

    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...

    The Last City
  • 1995
    Brother of Sleep

    Brother of Sleep

    Brother of Sleep

    6.71995HD

    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...

    Brother of Sleep
  • 1979
    Execution: A Story of Mary

    Execution: A Story of Mary

    Execution: A Story of Mary

    51979HD

    This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...

    Execution: A Story of Mary
  • 2009
    Saturn Returns

    Saturn Returns

    Saturn Returns

    5.52009HD

    Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek....

    Saturn Returns
  • 2012
    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    72012HD

    Lauded artist-filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (Schindler's Houses) offers an exquisite excursus on the work of pioneering French architect Auguste Perret,...

    Perret in France and Algeria
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2009
    Ornament und Verbrechen

    Ornament und Verbrechen

    Ornament und Verbrechen

    02009HD

    A 1908 essay by Adolf Loos is here read by the incomparable Carola Regnier and set to virtual photographs of 18th-century marble inlays at St....

    Ornament und Verbrechen
  • 1970
    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

    Bombenwerfer

    01970HD

    Bombenwerfer
  • 2017
    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    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...

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
  • 2014
    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III

    52014HD

    In the 21st part of his Photography and beyond series, Heinz Emigholz projects as usual a series of structures into our brains and from there on to...

    The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism, Part III
  • 2012
    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete

    5.82012HD

    The third autobiography in the series deals with modern architecture. For the grand finale, he covers a broad historical spectrum: Parabeton tells of...

    Parabeton: Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete
  • 1989
    Virgin Machine

    Virgin Machine

    Virgin Machine

    4.51989HD

    A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.

    Virgin Machine
  • 2017
    Dieste [Uruguay]

    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...

    Dieste [Uruguay]
  • 2003
    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    Goff in the Desert

    62003HD

    In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American...

    Goff in the Desert
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    71978HD

    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 2001
    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks

    Sullivan's Banks

    52001HD

    Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an...

    Sullivan's Banks
  • 2017
    Streetscapes [Dialogue]

    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....

    Streetscapes [Dialogue]
  • 2005
    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    5.22005HD

    Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of...

    D’Annunzio’s Cave
  • 2018
    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    02018HD

    A confrontation and comparison of two church buildings, which could hardly be more different, but also a dialogue between various concepts of church...

    Two Basilicas