Heinz Emigholz
Born in 1948 near Bremen, Germany, Heinz Emigholz initially trained as a draughtsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg. He began his filmmaking career in 1968 and has worked as a filmmaker, artist, writer, and producer in Germany and the USA since 1973. Emigholz has been involved in numerous exhibitions, retrospectives, lectures, and publications. In 1974, he started his encyclopaedic drawing series, "The Basis of Make-Up," and in 1984, he launched his film series "Photography and Beyond." From 1993 to 2013, he held a professorship in experimental filmmaking at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he co-founded the Institute for Time-based Media and the "Art and Media" program. Since 2003, Filmgalerie 451 has been releasing editions of his films on DVD. His notable publications include "Krieg der Augen, Kreuz der Sinne" (War of Eyes, Cross of Senses), "Seit Freud gesagt hat, der Künstler heile seine Neurose selbst, heilen die Künstler ihre Neurosen selbst" (Since Freud said that the artist heals his neuroses himself, artists have been healing their neuroses themselves), "Normalsatz – Siebzehn Filme" (Ordinary Sentence – Seventeen Films), and "Das schwarze Schamquadrat" (The Black Square of Shame), all published by Martin Schmitz Verlag. Other works include "Die Basis des Make-Up" (I, II, and III), "Der Begnadete Meier" (Grace Jones), "Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie" (Small Encyclopaedia of Photography), and "Sense of Architecture," featuring over 600 photographs. Heinz Emigholz has been a member of the Academy of the Arts Berlin since 2013.
