This month, Mubi is playing four films by the great German documentarian Heinz Emigholz. Called “the film world’s most acute observer of architecture” by Variety, Emigholz has been making beautiful, structural, contemplative and rigorous films since 1972. Art Forum wrote in 2010 that:Emigholz is best known these days for his meticulous, meditative architecture films, composed of stationary shots of a particular architect’s buildings. His early 1970s work, even more fastidious in its spatial and geometric precision, has clear affinities with the structuralist-materialist American avant-garde of the period.I was first struck by this beautiful poster, above, for his 2013 film The Airstrip and, digging deeper, I discovered a whole series of posters for Emigholz’s work which adhere to a similar deceptively utilitarian style. (The Airstrip is actually unusually baroque, composed as it is from multiple images.)Since 2002, Emigholz’s posters have all been designed by the Berlin graphic design agency Moniteurs,...
- 2/9/2018
- MUBI
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