Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women,...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband...

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

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

A look at the pervasive power of dust from its tiny particles settling in unseen places to its ability to cause illnesses and create the cosmos.

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 films of John Ford.

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...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more accurately: into a Saturday. She′s alone at home, surrounded by the emptiness of her new...

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

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