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 Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war.Read More »
Jonathan Perel
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Heinz Emigholz – Die letzte Stadt AKA The Last City (2020)
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Heinz Emigholz – Dieste [Uruguay] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 4 (2017)
2011-2020ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyHeinz EmigholzThe final part of Heinz Emigholz’s “Streetscapes” series is a triptych. A prologue examines 3 buildings by Julio Vilamajó in Montevideo. The main part of the film is a cinematic documentation of 29 buildings by the Uruguayan architect and shell-construction master Eladio Dieste (1917-2000).Read More »
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Heinz Emigholz – Streetscapes [Dialogue] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 3 (2017)
2011-2020ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyHeinz EmigholzA film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces. At some point, the idea takes hold that this conversation could be turned into a film. And this is the very film we’re watching the two of them in.Read More »
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Heinz Emigholz – 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 1 (2017)
2011-2020ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyHeinz EmigholzMusicalCelebrated for his rigorous films about the experience of architecture (Schindler’s Houses, Loos Ornamental), Heinz Emigholz launches a new chapter of his “Photography and Beyond” project with an ambitious four-film cycle titled “Streetscapes” (which premiered to great acclaim at the recent Berlinale). The first installment is an open-ended response to Godard’s One Plus One, which chronicled the Rolling Stones in the studio at the height of the 1960s counterculture. This 21st-century update documents the German post-rock band Kreidler at work on their album ABC in a wood-paneled hall in Tbilisi, Georgia. Throughout Emigholz cuts to shots of the city streets outside and to the briskly leafed pages of his densely illustrated notebooks, while a voiceover ruminates on the nature of art and desire.Read More »