Heinz Emigholz Movies

Famed Swiss architect and artist Robert Maillart was renowned for his concrete bridges; this documentary examines the elegant design of his...

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

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his...

The film shows the Antivilla built by Arno Brandlhuber in Potsdam, Krampnitz, between 2010 and 2015. The building has the project number 0131 in the...

After Roy's demise, five friends try to reconstruct his life by reading through the late editor's notebooks - only to face some very personal demons....

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

That loquacious cynic known as “Old White Male,” played by John Erdman in Heinz Emigholz’s 2020 film The Lobby, returns in this...

With Marcia Bronstein and Silke Grossmann. Hamburg, Wandsbek-Gartenstadt, May 1976.

One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in...

Contemporary cinema’s preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz...

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...

Emigholz disrupts the linear narrative via editing, and then reconnects the shots based on recognizable patterns. In doing so, he brings new meaning...

Experimental short about some stairs.

Studies on 35mm b/w film from 1988 to 1997.

The first part shows the progression from high tide to low tide in 15 minutes. The second, equally long part follows the changes from high tide to...

Both a beguiling meditation on the aesthetic of a city and a loving tribute to a great architect, Heinz Emigholz's documentary examines urban Los...

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

Experimental short film set in a military environment.

A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg’s...

The latest entry in Heinz Emigholz’s (Slaughterhouses of Modernity, NYFF60) incisive, decades-long inquiry into the cinematic representation of...