Heinz Emigholz: Streetscapes Series (I-IV)
An existential Gesamtkunstwerk about the Meaning of all Actions
The artist and filmmaker Heinz Emigholz (born 1948) has created an extensive body of important essay, avant-garde and experimental films. For the journalist Andreas Busche, he is "the last significant image analyst of German cinema after the death of Harun Farocki". In 1993 he started a "collection of freely combinable films dealing with products of human design" (Emigholz) under the title "Photography and beyond".
As sub-series he created the cycle "Architecture as Autobiography", in which Emigholz depicts the preserved buildings of architects, civil engineers and designers in chronological order, as well as the "Streetscape Series". In this series, Emigholz provides insights into his artistic work, but also into a fundamental life crisis, and combines the four parts into an existential total work of art.
Streetscapes - Four films by Heinz Emigholz
Chapter I: 2+2=22 [The Alphabet]
Chapter II: Bickels [Socialism]
Chapter III: Streetscapes [Dialogue]
Chapter IV: Dieste [Uruguay]