Heinz Emigholz

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-01-22 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Achim, Germany

Heinz Emigholz

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1993

Stalingrad

as Edgar Emigholz

1995

1982

Macumba

as Vinzenz Nola

1984

Committed

as Dr. Kraus

2023

1979

Execution: A Story of Mary

as Narrator (voice)

2009

1983

Die blaue Distanz

as Voice at telephone

Production

2007

1989

1991

The Holy Bunch

as Director

2009

2003

2005

1984

Committed

as Cinematography

2021

Antivilla

as Director

2021

Antivilla

as Cinematography

2021

Antivilla

as Editor

2021

Casa Golly

as Director

1976

Hotel

as Director

1975

Tide

as Director

2008

Loos Ornamental

as Director

2021

2014

Two Museums

as Director

2014

Two Museums

as Camera Operator

1988

2001

Sullivan's Banks

as Director

2001

2001

1983

2011

2001

Miscellanea I

as Director

2005

Miscellanea III

as Director

2001

2001

Miscellanea II

as Director

2001

Miscellanea I

as Writer

2005

2022

2022

Salamone, Pampa

as Director

2013

Winter

as Director

1975

Schenec-Tady II

as Director

1976

1974

Arrowplane

as Writer

1973

Schenec-Tady I

as Director

1975

1974

Arrowplane

as Director

1976

Schenec-Tady III

as Director

1973

1976

1977

Demon

as Director

2023

2016

2022

Mamani in El Alto

as Screenplay

2022

Mamani in El Alto

as Cinematography

2022

2021

WEISS hoch ZWEI

as Director

2001

The Basis of Make-Up II

as Cinematography

1983

The Basis of Make-Up I

as Cinematography

1991

The Holy Bunch

as Screenplay

1991

The Holy Bunch

as Director of Photography

2005

The Basis of Make-Up III

as Cinematography

2017

Dieste [Uruguay]

as Director

1982

1982

1982

1976

Cup Piece

as Director

1976

Schuhstück

as Director

2018

Two Basilicas

as Director

1975

Stair Piece

as Director

2017

Streetscapes [Dialogue]

as Cinematography

2017

2017

Dieste [Uruguay]

as Director of Photography

2017

2017

2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

as Director of Photography

2016

2016

2016

Bickels [Socialism]

as Director of Photography

2024

The Suit

as Director

2019

2021

The Last City

as Director

2021

The Last City

as Editor

2021

The Last City

as Writer

2021

The Last City

as Director of Photography

1985

2005

D’Annunzio’s Cave

as Director of Photography

2020

The Lobby

as Director

1987

She Must Be Seeing Things

as Director of Photography

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