Miscellanea I-VII
GER 1986-2010, 152 min
A series including seven films by Heinz Emigholz. It is the name Heinz Emigholz gave to films that have forced themselves upon him wanting to be made during the course of his work on other films – without a commission or funding debates.
Synopsis
The films of the MISCELLANEA series can be seen as vessels for collections of film shots, footnotes, remarks and references, to be regarded as vanguard and memory. For example, the films EL GRECO IN TOLEDO and ON BOARD THE USS TICONDEROGA emerged from two scenes of the film THE HOLY BUNCH from 1991, in which the images appeared only marginally as a component of the story. Yet the necessity to examine them more closely lived on beyond the limited time of a feature film. MISCELLANEA IV-VII form an independent series named A SERIES OF THOUGHTS.
MISCELLANEA I
GER 1988-1997, 35 mm, 1:1,37, b/w, 20 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 5
Raw meat at Cabo de Creus and the ruins of Sant Pere de Rodes in the Spanish Pyrenees, filmed on October 7 and 11, 1988. Eckhard Rhode, Kyle deCamp and John Erdman at Georges Rodenbach’s grave at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris on September 27, 1988. Eckhard Rhode translates the inscription on the tombstone: “Lord, give me hope to live on in the melancholic eternity of the book”. This footage was made while shooting the feature film DER ZYNISCHE KÖRPER (THE HOLY BUNCH), in which the scene was not included. The power stations “Humboldt” and “Wilhelmsruh”, built by Hans Heinrich Müller in 1926 in Berlin – their interaction with the set-designs in Fritz Lang’s Mabuse films and METROPOLIS is still felt today – filmed on April 9 and 10, 1997. Jochen Nickel at Heinz Emigholz’s exhibition “Die Basis des Make-Up 1974-1994” in the Hamburg Kunsthalle on July 1, 1994. Views of plane trees in Barcelona with Eckhard Rhode on October 4, 1988 – a congenial relationship between the coulour nuances of tree bark and stones and Kodak’s Plus X b/w film. The tympanum of Auguste Rodin’s The Gates of Hell at the Zurich Kunsthaus on October 30, 1988. Hans Etter had scaffolding put up in the front of the sculpture so we could film details not visible from street level. The bronze casting of La Porte de L'Enfer in Zurich was done in the 40s near Paris during the German occupation and was a present of the Nazi government to the Swiss arms manufacturer Bührle – as thanks for the good business relationship and the delivery of anti-aircraft guns.
MISCELLANEA II
GER 1988-2001, 35 mm, 1:1,37, Color, 19 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 6
The memorial to the crew of the crashed Challenger-space shuttle in the grounds of the Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on April 3, 1995. The Ladora Savings Bank by C. B. Zalesky in Ladora, Iowa, April 4, 1995. Both motifs were discovered by chance during a filming expedition to the last eight buildings of Louis Sullivan in the Midwest of the United States. Neil Armstrong was born near Wapakoneta, Zalesky was a scholar of Sullivan. The painting Building of the Devil’s Bridge (ca. 1833) by Carl Blechen and the present location of the Devil’s Bridge at the St. Gotthard Pass, shot on April 18, 1996, during a filming expedition to Robert Maillart’s bridges. The castle in Arco and the swimming pool built by Giancarlo Maroni between 1932 and 1934 in Riva on Lake Garda, filmed March 23, 1997. Maroni came from Arco, and was D'Annunzios personal architect at the Vittoriale in Gardone. The footage was made during the shooting of D'ANNUNZIOS CAVE – INTERIOR DESIGN AS POLITICAL DECLARATION. Ueli Etter cleaning the screens and printing motifs for his exhibition on a clear day in Berlin, August 22, 1995. The post offices in Sabaudia and Latina, south of Rome, built by Angiolo Mazzoni in the early 30s, and his railway station (1937) in Latina Scalo, filmes July 31, and August 3, 1995. Jochen Nickel, Ueli Etter und Ronny Tanner at Ueli Etter’s exhibition you can see forever on June 21, 1996. Buildings next to the Via Appia near Pontinia on August 7, 1995. Raw meat at Cabo de Creus in Spain on October 11, 1988.
MISCELLANEA III
GER 1997-2004, 35 mm, 1:1,37, Color, 22 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 10
MISCELLANEA (III) shows the portal, designed by Louis H. Sullivan, to the Chicago Stock Exchange on Monroe Street in Chicago, which was erected in 1894 and torn down in 1972; ruins of a glass factory in Henryetta, Oklahoma, from which Bruce Goff bought the colorful pieces of glass he often used; a railway bridge over a creek in the desert on Highway 62; the General Patton Memorial Museum on Interstate Highway 10 and an intersection in Twentynine Palms, California; Gateway West – the Mexican border – and City Hall in El Paso, New Mexico; a study of downtown Oklahoma City and the national memorial designed by Hans Butzer in honor of the people killed in the bombing of the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995; the Community Center designed by William Wesley Peters in 1982 and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower from 1956 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; the Tower and geodesic Gold Dome that Robert B. Roloff built in 1958 in Oklahoma City from Buckminster Fuller’s plans; the jungle gym Bruce Goff built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1963 for children; a Lockheed T-33, the training version of the first twin-jet US fighter plane, built on a German model, exhibited as a sculpture in front of the Center of Commerce in Del Rio, Texas; three buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright from the 1920s, in which Bruce Goff had a hand; the oldest cement fence in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the oldest brick silo near Bartlesville, and a concrete schoolhouse from the 1920s in Dewey, Oklahoma; the burial sites of Louis H. Sullivan and Bruce Goff in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago; the warship Puglia built into a mountain slope on the grounds of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s mausoleum, the Vittoriale in Gardone on Lake Garda – his body and those of ten loyal followers in sarcophagi on marble steles, high above Lake Garda. The footage from the US was taken in April and May 2002 during the filming of Goff in the Desert; the footage from the Vittoriale is from March 24, 1997 in preparation for the project D'ANNUNZIOS CAVE.
MISCELLANEA IV – A MUSEUM IN ESSEN
GER 2009/10, HDCAM, 4:3, Color, 21 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 15
The spaces of the new building of Museum Folkwang by David Chipperfield Architects that were still empty in December 2009, and into which one can imagine the preceding images.
MISCELLANEA V – EL GRECO IN TOLEDO
GER 1987-2010, HDCAM, 16:9, Color, 29 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 16
Documentation of the painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz that El Greco completed in 1588.
MISCELLANEA VI – LEONARDO’S TEARS
GER 1986-2010, DV, 4:3, Color, 29 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 17
All views of the Brazilian midfielder Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo that were broadcast from the Soccer World Cup 1998 with a text collage on “Grace Jones” from the year 1986.
MISCELLANEA VII – ON BOARD THE USS TICONDEROGA
GER 1987-2010, DV, 4:3, b/w, 12 min, “Photography and beyond” – Part 18
ON BOARD THE USS TICONDEROGA retells a photograph that Wayne Miller took on November 5, 1944, on board an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
Awards and Festivals
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, 2001
- Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival, 2001, 2005, 2011
- BAFICI Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, 2004
- New York Film Festival, 2005
- Berlinale Forum, 2005, 2011
- New Horizons, Wroclaw, 2011
Credits
MISCELLANEA I
Director, Screenplay, Drawing, Director of Photography and Editor
Heinz Emigholz
With
Kyle DeCamp, John Erdman, Jochen Nickel, Eckhard Rhode
Sound Design
Martin Langenbach
Sound Mixer
Pierre Brand
Produced by
Pym Films
In Cooperation with
FilmFörderung Hamburg
MISCELLANEA II
Director, Screenplay and Director of Photography
Heinz Emigholz
Editor
Heinz Emigholz, Markus Ruff
With
Ueli Etter, Jochen Nickel, Ronny Tanner
Sound Design
Martin Langenbach, Pierre Brand
Produced by
Pym Films
MISCELLANEA III
Director, Screenplay and Editor
Heinz Emigholz
Collaboration
Irene von Alberti, Heiner Büld, Ueli Etter, May Rigler, Frieder Schlaich, Thomas Wilk
Sound Design
Christian Obermaier, Matthias Schwab
Produced by
Pym Films
MISCELLANEA IV – EIN MUSEUMSBAU IN ESSEN
Director and Director of Photography
Heinz Emigholz
Camera Assistant and Postproduction
Till Beckmann
Editor
Till Beckmann, Heinz Emigholz
Sound Design
Till Beckmann, Jochen Jezussek, Christian Obermaier
Production Coordination Essen
Ute Eskildsen
Produced by
Pym Films
MISCELLANEA V – EL GRECO IN TOLEDO
Screenplay, Director and Director of Photography
Heinz Emigholz
Collaboration
Ueli Etter
Editor
Heinz Emigholz, Markus Ruff
Narrator
Hanns Zischler
Sound Design
Jochen Jezussek, Christian Obermaier
Postprocuktion
Till Beckmann
Produced by
Pym Films
MISCELLANEA VI – LEONARDOS TRÄNEN
Director and Screenplay
Heinz Emigholz
Collaboration
Till Beckmann, Gunter Krüger, BK.FB.98WM, Markus Ruff
Editor
Heinz Emigholz, Jörg Langkau
Narrator
Heinz Emigholz, John Erdman, Eckhard Rhode, Hanns Zischler
Sound Design
Jochen Jezussek
Produced by
Pym Films
MISCELLANEA VII – AN BORD DER USS TICONDEROGA
Director and Screenplay
Heinz Emigholz
Director of Photography
Benjamin Krieg
Collaboration
Till Beckmann, Markus Ruff
Narrator
Imri Kahn
Sound Design
Jochen Jezussek
Produced by
Pym Films
Distribution Details
Miscellanea I-III
Distribution
Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst
Miscellanea IV-VII
Distribution
Filmgalerie 451
Screening Format
Part I-III: 35mm (Dolby Stereo SR, contact Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst)
Part IV-VII: ProRes file
Aspect Ratio
Part I-III: 35mm, 1:1,37
Part IV-VII: 16:9 + 4:3
License Area
Worldwide