Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

“Why does cinema need death, when it can’t show it?” The filmmaker’s monologue and the discourse of images meet

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.

Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.

The film documents a debate about early 20th century films, mainly 1910 to 1920, from short news reels to excerpts from full-length movies. At...

Die UFA, a film essay about the eponymous German studio.

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Bitomskys new film was inspired by the Japanese shakkei, which stands for the “borrowing” of a landscape. Japanese gardens are often...

"Highway 40 West" (1980/81) is the first of a series of documentaries by Hartmut Bitomsky (born 1942 in Bremen) which brought him international fame....

This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The...