Hartmut Bitomsky Filmes

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

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 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 issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

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

Before Your Eyes – Vietnam (1982) is an unconventional essay film by Harun Farocki that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the...

“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....

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...

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and...

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

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

A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

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...

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

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 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...