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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

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.