Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

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 the films of John Ford.

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

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

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

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...

TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.

“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....

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

"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....

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

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...