Heinz Emigholz Movies

  • 1993
    Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    Stalingrad

    7.31993HD

    A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed...

    Stalingrad
  • 1995
    Brother of Sleep

    Brother of Sleep

    Brother of Sleep

    6.7341995HD

    In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered...

    Brother of Sleep
  • 1989
    Virgin Machine

    Virgin Machine

    Virgin Machine

    4.51989HD

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

    Virgin Machine
  • 1979
    Execution: A Story of Mary

    Execution: A Story of Mary

    Execution: A Story of Mary

    51979HD

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

    Execution: A Story of Mary
  • 1987
    She Must Be Seeing Things

    She Must Be Seeing Things

    She Must Be Seeing Things

    4.9171987HD

    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...

    She Must Be Seeing Things
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 2017
    Streetscapes [Dialogue]

    Streetscapes [Dialogue]

    Streetscapes [Dialogue]

    5.52017HD

    A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces....

    Streetscapes [Dialogue]
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    71978HD

    Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

    Four Shadows
  • 2016
    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism]

    Bickels [Socialism]

    4.42016HD

    The ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre...

    Bickels [Socialism]
  • 2021
    The Last City

    The Last City

    The Last City

    02021HD

    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...

    The Last City
  • 2017
    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    Dieste [Uruguay]

    4.22017HD

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

    Dieste [Uruguay]
  • 2019
    Years of Construction

    Years of Construction

    Years of Construction

    6.62019HD

    Demolition of the old and building of the new Kunsthalle in Mannheim in the years 2013 to 2018.

    Years of Construction
  • 2017
    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]

    4.82017HD

    Worn-down pavements, broken paving stones. Trees that jut out of the concrete, casting shadows on to crumbling façades. The centre of Tbilisi...

    2 + 2 = 22 [The Alphabet]
  • 2005
    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    D’Annunzio’s Cave

    5.22005HD

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

    D’Annunzio’s Cave
  • 2012
    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    Perret in France and Algeria

    72012HD

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

    Perret in France and Algeria
  • 2020
    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    The Lobby

    02020HD

    “There is no Here here.” A character simply named Old White Male (John Erdman) holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings...

    The Lobby
  • 2018
    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    Two Basilicas

    02018HD

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

    Two Basilicas
  • 2024
    The Suit

    The Suit

    The Suit

    02024HD

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

    The Suit
  • 1991
    The Holy Bunch

    The Holy Bunch

    The Holy Bunch

    5.71991HD

    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....

    The Holy Bunch
  • 2009
    Saturn Returns

    Saturn Returns

    Saturn Returns

    5.52009HD

    Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek....

    Saturn Returns