Heinz Emigholz Movies

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A character simply named Old White Male holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust...

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...

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

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

A meditation on ruins and remains linked strongly to the US chapters of Photography and Beyond. A rumination on a nation and dream in tatters. A...

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...

The films of pre-eminent documentary filmmaker Heinz Emigholz present the most important architects of the 20th century not through explanation or...

Experimental short about some stairs.

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

Concrete hubris looms over the Argentinean pampa around Buenos Aires. The buildings of Francisco Salamone (1897–1959) advertise a pitiless...

The film explores two projects by Austrian artist and visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is...

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