Die Basis des Make-Up I-III

Emigholz considers the shorts collected under the series header The Basis of Make-Up as ‘basis films’ and ‘master tapes’ of his feature film projects from the mid-1970s onwards – something like the connective tissue of Photography and Beyond with the rest of his œuvre. They are ‘animations’ of Emigholz’s notebooks full of hand-written observations, drawings and photos, so it’s impossible to read the words or look closer at the images, but one can experience the dynamics of these collages. In between: snippets of ‘cinematic studies’, drawings and pages from sketchbooks plus, in The Basis of Make-Up (I), a few slides. (I) shows 42 notebooks covering the years 1974-83; (II) features another 69 notebooks (1983-96) detailing the background to The Holy Bunch plus two still unrealised projects. Finally, (III) covers 38 notebooks (1996-2004) and points relentlessly towards the future, suggesting the outlines of two projects to come.
Part one, four and nine of Emigholz’s architectural studies that form the film collection Photography and Beyond.