Heinz Emigholz Movies

A passage through modern civilised life by way of 42 architectural projects in Austria and elsewhere. From a church belfry to a kindergarten,...

Experimental short.

Experimental short.

Forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's illustratred notebooks from 1974 to 1983, a notebook of Heinrich Emigholz dated 1941, a sketchbook from the 70s,...

Experimental short about some stairs.

A 1908 essay by Adolf Loos is here read by the incomparable Carola Regnier and set to virtual photographs of 18th-century marble inlays at St....

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

In this creative documentary, filmmaker Heinz Emigholz presents a series of filmed photographs of the work of the exceptionally inventive American...

Filmed on March 6, 2023 between 19:11 and 19:27.

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

Contemporary cinema’s preeminent chronicler of architecture and its intersection with the ever-present crisis of 20th-century modernity, Heinz...

A dash of nostalgia, then a shrug and self-irony: The portraits of Berlin subway stations in Berlin [Underground] begin in Schöneberg’s...

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

Short experimental film from Heinz Emigholz, shot in 1976; sound, no dialogue. Damn fine cup of coffee.

Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] contrasts the Villa Savoye, built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn’s Grand Relief, which the...

Experimental short.

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...