Film Screening Heinz Emigholz @ Images Festival

Streetscapes [Dialogues] (Germany, 2017, 132 min) by Heinz Emigholz
digital video

Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut

Over the past 25 years, the films of Heinz Emigholz have staged a sustained dialogue between cinema and architecture, attempting to reconcile the durationality of moving images with the simultaneity of built structures. Part of his recent four-part Streetscapes series, Streetscapes [Dialogue] uses cinema as a means of both apprehending and producing space, taking as its setting projects by architects Julio Vilamajó, Eladio Dieste, and Arno Brandlhuber, all shot in his idiosyncratic, dissonant style. However, unlike previous efforts, Streetscapes [Dialogue] places the artist in the midst of his own work, as an intensive therapeutic exchange between Emigholz and psychologist Zohar Rubinstein is acted out by avatars inserted into the discontinuous cine-architectural space. Through this intervention, Streetscapes [Dialogue] furthers Emigholz’s practice of thinking space through cinematic time.

Born in 1948, Heinz Emigholz is a filmmaker, writer, artist and producer. From 1993-2003, he was a professor for experimental film at the College of Fine Arts Berlin. He has previously engaged with Michael Snow in their joint exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Toronto Gallery in 2004. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Heinz Emigholz will be in attendance as a guest of the Goethe-Institut.

Images Festival is Canada’s largest on and off screen showcase of innovative contemporary art, featuring eight days of screenings, events, performances and exhibitions.


 

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