Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

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

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

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

TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.

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...

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...

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.

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...

“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....

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...

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

James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States. Here, the geographic and...

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

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

"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....