REDCAT: For the past 15 years, the idiosyncratic Berlin filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has created a series of films documenting the work of certain 20th-century architects for whom he feels a special affinity. What attracts him particularly is the complex organization of interior spaces and the spatial relations between a building and its immediate surroundings. So this encounter with the “space architecture” of fellow maverick Rudolph Schindler, who practiced in Los Angeles from 1922 to 1953, seems not only natural but almost inevitable, and Schindler’s Houses has become the most popular of Emigholz’s architecture films, even as his rejection of all the clichés and conventions of architectural photography has sparked controversy. West Coast premiere | Germany, 2007, 99 min., 35mm, color
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series

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