Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

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

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

Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen.

“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....

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...

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

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.

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 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...

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

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

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...

Documentary about the films of John Ford.

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.