Heinz Emigholz (* January 22, 1948 in Achim, near Bremen, Germany) is a filmmaker, actor, artist, writer and producer. He is a Professor for Experimental film at Berlin University of the Arts (since 1993) and at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He worked as an illustrator and a retoucher, and studied philosophy and literary studies in Hamburg. He founded the film company Pym Films in 1978. He has produced a comprehensive filmic and artistic oeuvre and has also done performance art and acted in other directors’ films (Cynthia Beatt, Silke Grossmann, Stefan Hayn, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Ken Jacobs, Sheila McLaughlin, Sandra Nettelbeck, Elfi Mikesch, Lior Shamriz, Joseph Vilsmaier, Klaus Wyborny a.o.).
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