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The film presents 17 extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi in Italy and France and 10 examples of Ancient Roman architecture made of Opus caementitium.Read More »
Heinz Emigholz
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Heinz Emigholz – Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi und Römischer Beton AKA Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete (2012)
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Heinz Emigholz – Perret in Frankreich und Algerien AKA Perret in France and Algeria (2012)
2011-2020ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyHeinz EmigholzSynopsis:
The film PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIA presents thirty buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret. Auguste Perret has masterfully refined concrete construction in the implementation of his projects and instilled in them a classical expression. Working in parallel to the execution of numerous construction projects in France, Perret was building under conditions of colonialism in North Africa. The film traces this division chronologically. The buildings erected in Algeria from 1912 until 1952 are for the first time the subject of a film, as are the ones built in France.Read More » -
Heinz Emigholz – Loos Ornamental (2008)
2001-2010ArchitectureDocumentaryExperimentalGermanyHeinz EmigholzHeinz Emigholz-Loos Ornamental / Photography and Beyond – Part 13 (2008)
The film shows 27 still-existing buildings and interiors by Austrian architect Adolf Loos (1870–1933) in order of their construction. Adolf Loos was one of the pioneers of European Modernist architecture. His vehement turn against ornamentation on buildings triggered a controversy in architectural theory. The development of his “spatial plan” launched a new way of thinking about spaces to be built. His houses, furniture for shops and apartments, facades, and monuments were built between 1899 and 1931. They were filmed in 2006 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Nachod, and Paris in their present surroundings.Read More »
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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 – Bickels [Socialism] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 2 (2016)
2011-2020ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyHeinz EmigholzThe ‘Casa do Povo’ cultural centre in São Paulo, an icon of the secular Jewish workers’ movement: a crumbling theatre flanked by staircases, entryways and corridors. Construction noise drones away in the background, clinking crockery, a broom sweeping over tiled floors, an expressive façade of countless adjustable panes of glass covered by a patina. It’s October 2016 and a group of young people are preparing a preview of Bickels [Socialism]. The venue is to form a prologue to the completed film, which tours 22 buildings in Israel designed by Samuel Bickels, most of which for kibbutzim. Dining halls, children’s houses, agricultural buildings, bright structures inserted into the Mediterranean landscape with great ingenuity.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 »