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TWO PROJECTS BY FREDERICK KIESLER
DOS PROYECTOS POR FREDERICK KIESLER

GERMANY/AUSTRIA | 2007 - 2009 | DCP | COLOUR | GERMAN | 16 MIN | HEINZ EMIGHOLZ

Director / Director: Heinz Emigholz

Guión / Screenplay: Heinz Emigholz

Productor / Producer: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Fotografía / Cinematography: Heinz Emigholz

Edición / Editing: Heinz Emigholz, Till Beckmann

Sonido / Sound: Till Beckmann, Jochen Jezussek, Christian Obermaier

Compañía Productora / Production Company: Amour fou and KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, Vienna, in Cooperation with Heinz Emigholz Filmproduction, Berlin

Sinopsis / Synopsis:

The film explores two projects by Austrian artist und visionary Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965): the model for ENDLESS HOUSE (1959) that is currently exhibited at the Kiesler Foundation in Vienna and THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK designed and built by Frederick Kiesler and Armand Bartos in Jerusalem (1959-65). The film was shot in June 2006. The film is the third part of a trilogy of films dealing with the buildings of Adolf Loos, Rudolph M. Schindler und Frederick Kiesler.

Biografía / Biography:

Born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, Heinz Emigholz trained first as a draftsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg. He began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer and producer in Germany and the USA.

Festivales / Festivals:

Thessaloniki International Film Festival - Greece, 2009
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Germany, 2009

Contacto / Contact:

Viviana Kammel
presse@filmgalerie451.de