Movies: Hartmut Bitomsky

1989
The VW Complex (1989)
The VW Complex
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Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen....
1974
Kino/Kritik. Über die Wörter, den Sinn und das Geld von Filmen (1974)
Kino/Kritik. Über die Wörter, den Sinn und das Geld von Filmen
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1970
Die Teilung aller Tage (1970)
Die Teilung aller Tage
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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 inserts them into a testing device. The light bulbs light up briefly and bathe the scene in glistening...
2007
Dust (2007)
Dust
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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....
2008
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (2008)
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie
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Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an irresistible state of dissolution at the beginning and end of all things and living things....
1976
Der Schauplatz des Krieges. Das Kino von John Ford (1976)
Der Schauplatz des Krieges. Das Kino von John Ford
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Documentary about the films of John Ford....
2009
Sparrows (2009)
Sparrows
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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....
2001
B-52 (2001)
B-52
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A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber....
2007
Half Hours (2007)
Half Hours
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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 life....
1981
Highway 40 West (1981)
Highway 40 West
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"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. Each of these films is dedicated to both, a specific and title-giving object and its historical-crit...
1975
Telekritik: Unter einem Himmel schwarz von Häusern von erloschenen Bränden schwarz (1975)
Telekritik: Unter einem Himmel schwarz von Häusern von erloschenen Bränden schwarz
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1988
Cinema and Death (1988)
Cinema and Death
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“Why does cinema need death, when it can’t show it?” The filmmaker’s monologue and the discourse of images meet...
1966
Das Vöglein (1966)
Das Vöglein
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Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict....
1983
Deutschlandbilder (1983)
Deutschlandbilder
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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 Will To Live" (1944) that preceded the feature films in German movie theaters between 1933 and 1945. Th...
1968
Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty (1968)
Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty
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Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam....
1986
Reichsautobahn (1986)
Reichsautobahn
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Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany....
2017
Shakkei. Geborgte Landschaften (2017)
Shakkei. Geborgte Landschaften
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Bitomskys new film was inspired by the Japanese shakkei, which stands for the “borrowing” of a landscape. Japanese gardens are often planned so that a found “natural” landscape is connected with designed elements. For his film Bitomsky rediscovers hi...