Hartmut Bitomsky Movies

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...

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

"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....

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

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

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 films of John Ford.

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.

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.

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

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

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

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...