Heinz Emigholz: The Formative Years features an installation of seven films by Heinz Emigholz from the years 1972–77 at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building. The films, shot on 16mm, were digitalized in 2009, once again making them publicly accessible. The installation offers the first chance to get an overview of the relations among these self- contained works. Each film is screened as a digital loop, allowing for the parallel viewing of its different components, and producing ever-new constellations between its different rhythmical scores.
In conjunction with this exhibition, Anthology Film Archives presents seven programs surveying Emigholz’s later work, including most of the films in the Photography and Beyond series, along with the feature film The Holy Bunch. Emigholz himself will be ... Go to event
Film screenings
In German with English subtitles
Since 1984, German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has been at work on an ever-expanding project entitled Photography and Beyond, a series of formally rigorous studies of human creativity, documenting works of writing, design, and, in particular, architecture. Subtitling many of the films Architecture as Autobiography, Emigholz has devoted himself to cataloguing the work of architects including Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, Robert Maillart, Bruce Goff, and Rudolph Schindler.
This September, the Goethe-Institut New York will be mounting an exhibition (co-organized by the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin) entitled The Formative Years, featuring seven early Emigholz films in a site-specific video installation, and taking place at the ... 
Film Screening
German with English subtitles
(Caroline Link, 2001)
In 1938, the Jewish family Redlich flees to Kenya from the Nazis. The new life there is rife with difficulties for the parents, which leads to a marital crisis. The daughter feels comfortable on the African farm from the very start. When the father receives a job offer in Germany, it is difficult to bid Kenya farewell.
When: October 5, 2011
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Where: Goethe-Institut New York
72 Spring Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Admission: Free
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