Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

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...

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

TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.

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...

"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....

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

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...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

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

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...

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.

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.

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