{"id":6567,"date":"2015-10-23T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T04:18:19","slug":"october-29-heinz-emigholz-the-airstrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2015\/10\/23\/october-29-heinz-emigholz-the-airstrip\/","title":{"rendered":"October 29-Heinz Emigholz: The Airstrip"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 29<\/strong>\u00a0| This week\u00a0German director Heinz Emigholz<\/a> joins us for a screening of The Airstrip<\/a> and a discussion!\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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Heinz Emigholz, still from the Airstrip (2013). Courtesy of the artist and Filmgalerie 451.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

German director Heinz Emigholz is renowned for a series of films on the buildings of Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, and Rudolf Schindler. With The Airstrip<\/i> (2013), he weaves architectural study into a wide-ranging examination of the \u201cconcrete culture\u201d of WWII and modernism\u2019s postwar embrace of the material. Touching down in Europe, the Americas, and the North Pacific Islands, Emigholz sets structures by the likes of Luis Barrag\u00e1n and Pier Luigi Nervi alongside the concrete remains of the Battle of Normandy<\/a>, monuments to civilian casualties during the US\u2019s brutal invasion of the island of Saipan<\/a>, and the overgrown runway of Tinian, which served as the takeoff point for the planes that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. Followed by a discussion with Emigholz. Presented in collaboration with the <\/i>Goethe-Institut Chicago<\/i><\/a> as part of the <\/i>Chicago Architecture Biennial.<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

2013, Germany, DCP, 108 min + discussion<\/i><\/p>\n

Heinz Emigholz<\/a><\/strong> (1948, Achim, Germany) is an artist, director, writer, and producer. He trained as a draughtsman before studying philosophy and literature at the University of Hamburg. A major figure in German independent and experimental cinema, Emigholz has produced more than 90 long and short films, ranging from theatrical features to experimental documentary. Described by\u00a0Variety<\/i>\u00a0as the \u201cmost accurate observer of architecture,\u201d Emigholz is dedicated to origins, the fate, the triumph, and end of architectural Modernism. From 1993\u20132013 he served on the faculty of the Berlin University of the Arts. He has been the subject of numerous surveys and retrospectives internationally, most recently at the National Gallery in Washington DC, Centro Cultural in S\u00e3o Paulo, Instituto Moreira Salle in Rio de Janeiro, and XV International Biennial of Architecture of Buenos Aires. His work is distributed by Pym Films<\/a> and Filmgalerie 451.<\/a><\/p>\n

Heinz Emigholz Program Notes<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 29\u00a0| This week\u00a0German director Heinz Emigholz joins us for a screening of The Airstrip and a discussion!\u00a0 German director Heinz Emigholz is renowned for a series of films on the buildings of Louis Sullivan, Adolf Loos, and Rudolf Schindler. With The Airstrip (2013), he weaves architectural study into a wide-ranging examination of the […]<\/p>\n

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