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Belgium, 9th october 1979. A cook drills a hole in the door to the "camera obscura" (lat. dark room) of his boss, a persian-american carpet dealer, who lives together with two women and a narcistic drunkard in a dark carpet-cave. All the characters walk a fine line between professional and private life, between dependence and exercise of power trying to save his/her love. Blatant voyeurism rules. The characters mutually spike their feelings whenever possible driving wedges of love into one another's flesh. Masochistoic institution grows out of romance, which portrayal degenerates into a comedy. Heinz Emigholz analyzes patterns of human behaviour transforming into sentence-picture-units arranging them with only little narrative orientation. His film appears to be a carpet woven of different relationship-patterns transforming phrases like "to dominate someone without him/her knowing." or "to kill someone by loving him/her." into surreal entities. The confusing title attracts many film students assuming to watch some kind of documentary about the basics of make-up. My advice: Impose this movie on yourself and experience how pictures beyond comprehension take a life on their own. In your head after having switched off the DVD-player...

Some of the architecture enjoyed by Heinz Emigholz which could not wait for a fully-funded film to be shared with the world.

Over a span of five years, a wing of the Kunstahlle Mannheim is torn down and rebuilt.

An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war.

A character simply named "Old White Male" holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust on death, consciousness, and the state of contemporary human relations.

A friend dies, which causes five artists to examine their own lives.

Some of the architecture enjoyed by Heinz Emigholz which could not wait for a fully-funded film to be shared with the world.

Some of the architecture enjoyed by Heinz Emigholz which could not wait for a fully-funded film to be shared with the world.

Forty-two of Heinz Emigholz's sketches are shared with the world.

The last eight banks designed and furnished by Louis H. Sullivan.

Robert Maillart elegantly found ways to use concrete to overcome distances between banks, or to support a roof.

A film about the architecture of Eladio Dieste in Uruguay.

A comparison of two cathedrals, one in Denmark, one in Italy.

The film contrasts the "Villa Savoye", built by Le Corbusier in 1931, and Asger Jorn's "Grand Relief", built in 1959.

A collection of four films which explore the sacrifice of sons across many different mediums.

Thirty-eight notebook sketches of Heinz Emigholz are shared with the public.

Sixty-nine of Heinz Emigholz's sketches are shared with the world.

Brookburg, on April 30, 1975, the first day of peace, in the Office of Remembrance. A young artist, a specialist in the separateness of cultures, attempts to analyze his brutal sentimentality.