Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

Documentary about the films of John Ford.

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This...

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...

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.

Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are...

The two-part film by Hartmut Bitomsky is an "essay film with a plot." It revolves around the transportation of books that are meant to go from Munich...

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.

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

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

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

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

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...

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”,...

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.