Die letzte Stadt
The Last CityWith
- John Erdman (Archaeologist/Artist)
- Jonathan Perel (Weapon Designer/Cosmologist)
- Young Sun Han (Young Man/Priest)
- Dorothy Ko (Mother/Chinese Woman)
- Susanne Sachsse (“Japanese” Woman, Curator)
- Laurean Wagner (Policeman)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Heinz Emigholz |
Cinematography | Heinz Emigholz, Till Beckmann |
Editing | Heinz Emigholz, Till Beckmann |
Music | Kreidler, Alexander Paulick, Andreas Reihse |
Sound Design | Christian Obermaier |
Sound | Markus Ruff |
Sound Mixing | Jochen Jezussek |
Production Design | Ueli Etter |
Make-Up | Beto França, Andy Tse, Kyriaki Melidou, Matheus Gadelha |
Production Managers | Julia M. Müller, Bin Chuen Choi, Cássio Brasil, Katerina Thanopoulou, Itamar Luria |
Producers | Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti |
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Director's Talk with Heinz Emigholz
Die letzte Stadt | The Last City
Encounters · Berlinale Meets | Interview · Feb 27, 2020
Heinz Emigholz
Born in Achim, near Bremen, Germany in 1948. He has worked as a filmmaker, artist, writer, cinematographer, producer and journalist in Germany and the USA since 1973. In 1974, he began an encyclopedic series of drawings, “Die Basis des Make-Up”, which was the subject of a major exhibition in the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin in 2007/08. In 1984, he embarked on the “Photography and Beyond” film series. From 1993 to 2013, he was professor of experimental filmmaking at the Berlin University of the Arts where he also co-founded the Institute for Time-Based Media and the art and media course. He has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since 2013.
Filmography (selection)
1973 Schenec-Tady I; Short film · Schenec-Tady I; 27 min., Forum 1975 · Schenec-Tady II; Short film 1974 Arrowplane; 24 min., Forum 1974 · Arrowplane; Short film · Tide; Short film · Tide; 33 min., Forum 1976 1975 Schenec-Tady III; Short film 1976 Hotel; 27 min., Forum 1976 · Hotel; Short film 1977 Demon – Die Übersetzung von Stéphane Mallarmés Le Demon de l’Analogie (Demon - The Translation of Stéphane Mallarmé´`s The Demon of Analogy); Short film 1981 Normalsatz · Normalsatz; 105 min., Forum 1982 1983 The Basis of Make-Up I (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 1); Short film 1985 Die Basis des Make-Up (The Basis of Make-Up) · Die Basis des Make-Up; 85 min. 1987 Die Wiese der Sachen (The Meadow of Things); 87 min., Panorama 1988, Forum Expanded 2016 · Die Wiese der Sachen (The Meadow of Things) 1991 Der Zynische Körper (The Holy Bunch) 1999 Sullivans Banken (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 2) (Sullivan's Banks); Short film · Maillarts Brücken (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 3) (Maillart's Bridges); Short film · Maillarts Brücken (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 3) (Maillart's Bridges); 24 min., Forum 2001 2000 The Basis of Make-Up II (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 4); Short film 2003 Goff in der Wüste (Goff in the Desert) · Goff in der Wüste (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 7) (Goff in the Desert); 110 min., Forum 2003 2004 The Basis of Make-Up III (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 9); Short film 2005 D’Annunzios Höhle (D'Annunzio's Cave) · D’Annunzios Höhle (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 8) (D'Annunzio's Cave); 60 min., Forum 2005 2007 Schindlers Häuser (Schindler's Houses) 2008 Loos ornamental (Photographie und jenseits – Teil 13); 72 min., Forum 2008 · Loos ornamental · Ornament und Verbrechen von Adolf Loos (Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos); co-directed by Benjamin Krieg 2009 Sense of Architecture 2011 Eine Serie von Gedanken (A Series of Thoughts) 2012 Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi und römischer Beton (Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete ); 100 min., Forum 2012 · Parabeton – Pier Luigi Nervi und römischer Beton (Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi an Roman Concrete) · Auguste Perret in Frankreich und Algerien (Auguste Perret in France and Algeria) · Perret in Frankreich and Algerien (Perret in France and Algeria); 110 min. 2014 The Airstrip · The Airstrip – Aufbruch der Moderne, Teil III (The Airstrip – Decampment of Modernism, Part III); 108 min., Forum 2014 2015 Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]; Short film · Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief]; 29 min., Forum Expanded 2016 2017 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] · 2+2=22 [The Alphabet]; 88 min., Forum 2017 · Bickels [Socialism] · Bickels [Socialism]; 92 min., Forum 2017 · Streetscapes [Dialogue] · Streetscapes [Dialogue]; 132 min., Forum 2017 · Dieste [Uruguay] · Dieste [Uruguay]; 95 min., Forum 2017 2018 Two Basilicas; Short film · Two Basilicas; 36 min., Forum Expanded 2018 2019 Years of Construction 2020 Die letzte Stadt (The Last City)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020