Heinz Emigholz

Born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany Heinz Emigholz trained first as a draftsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg He began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker artist writer and producer in Germany and the USA In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series The Basis of MakeUp He looks back on numerous exhibitions retrospectives lectures and publications In 1984 he started his film series Photography and beyond He has held a professorship in Experimental Filmmaking at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1993 to 2013 and cofounded the Institute for Timebased Media and the program Art and Media there Since 2012 member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin In 2003 Filmgalerie 451 started an edition of all his films on DVD Publications ao 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 Sqare of Shame all four books at Verlag Martin Schmitz Die Basis des MakeUp I and II Der Begnadete Meier Grace Jones Kleine Enzyklopädie der Photographie Little Encyclopaedia of Photography and Die Basis des MakeUp III in Die Republik No 6871 7678 8991 9497 and 123125 Sense of Architecture with more than 600 photographs