Heinz Emigholz Movies

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

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

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

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

The final part of Heinz Emigholz’s "Streetscapes" series is again a triptych. A prologue examines three buildings from the 1930s designed by...

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

Arrowplane is the multiplication of a one-directional, horizontal 180-degree-panning shot with itself, applied to three landscapes – mound,...

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

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

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

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 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...

Experimental short film set in a military environment.

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

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

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

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

Studies on 35 mm color film from 1988 to 1997.

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...