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Heinz Emigholz

Born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, Heinz Emigholz trained first as a draftsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg. He began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer and producer in Germany and the USA. In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series The Basis of Make-Up . He looks back on numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures and publications. In 1984 he started his film series Photography and beyond. He has held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1993 to 2013, and co-founded the Institute for Time-based Media and the program Art and Media, there. Since 2012 member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2003 Filmgalerie 451 started an edition of all his films on DVD. Publications a.o.: Krieg der Augen, Kreuz der Sinne (War of Eyes, Cross of Senses), Seit Freud gesagt hat, der Künstler heile seine Neurose selbst, heilen die Künstler ihre Neurosen selbst (Since Freud Said That the Artist Heals His Neuroses Himself, Artists Have Been Healing Their Neuroses Themselves), Normalsatz – Siebzehn Filme (Ordinary Sentence – Seventeen Films) and Das schwarze Schamquadrat (The Black Sqare of Shame) (all four books at Verlag Martin Schmitz); Die Basis des Make-Up (I) and (II), Der Begnadete Meier (Grace Jones), Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie (Little Encyclopaedia of Photography) and Die Basis des Make-Up (III) (in Die Republik No. 68-71, 76-78, 89-91, 94-97 and 123-125); Sense of Architecture with more than 600 photographs.


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Born:
Jan 22, 1948 In Achim, Germany
Movie/TV Credits:
14
First Appeared:
In the movie Bartleby 1976-01-01
Latest Project:
Movie Slaughterhouses of Modernity 2023-01-19
Known For
Poster of Saturn Returns
Poster of The Meadow of Things
Poster of Committed
Poster of Die blaue Distanz
Filmography
Movie Slaughterhouses of Modernity (voice over) 2023-01-19
Movie Saturn Returns Edgar 2009-01-01
Movie Brother of Sleep Haintz 1995-09-08
Movie Stalingrad Edgar Emigholz 1993-01-20
Movie The Meadow of Things 1988-02-16
Movie Home Movies 1971-81 1985-01-01
Movie Committed Dr. Kraus 1984-01-01
Movie Die blaue Distanz Voice at telephone 1983-02-22
Movie Macumba Vinzenz Nola 1982-01-01
Movie Ordinary Sentence 1982-02-16
Movie Execution: A Story of Mary Narrator (voice) 1979-02-27
Movie Four Shadows 1978-10-03
Movie Der Ort der Handlung 1977-01-17
Movie Bartleby 1976-01-01