Movies: Hartmut Bitomsky
- 1989
The VW Complex (1989)
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Documentary about the history and the fabrication of Volkswagen....
- 1969
Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma (1969)
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Film by a student collective of the dffb....
- 1971
Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971)
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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 intended to introduce the process of understanding the theory of value of work and the law of values...
- 1979
Putting Things Straight (1979)
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- 1983
System Without Shadow (1983)
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Computer operator Faber works on securing computers for big companies and banks. His private life is rather dull until he meets a strange women, Juliet and falls in love. Her friend convinces Faber to exploit his knowledge to rob a bank....
- 1991
Barrage and Bunker (1991)
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Barrage and Bunker is an essay film about the (narrative) space imagined by fiction films. Reflections and associations about movement in space are the basis of every kind of story-telling. The film is sometimes referred to as part of Bitomsky's Cine...
- 1995
Workers Leaving the Factory (1995)
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Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of workers leaving factories throu...
- 1975
Kampf um ein Kind (1975)
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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 doesn’t know that she’s pregnant with their second child. Will she have to choose between motherhood an...
- 1975
Auf Biegen oder Brechen (1975)
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- 2007
Half Hours (2007)
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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....
- 1995
Imaginary Architecture, the architect Hans Scharoun (1995)
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Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This depiction can only be imaginary - like reading invisible writing on walls. Bitomsky's film looks at s...
- 1995
Playback (1995)
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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 Amsterdam's Film Museum, film directors, students, and film researchers and archivists look at the moving i...
- 2008
Es geht um Alles (2008)
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- 2007
Dust (2007)
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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....
- 1970
Die Teilung aller Tage (1970)
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TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky....
- 1981
Highway 40 West (1981)
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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...
- 1976
Der Schauplatz des Krieges. Das Kino von John Ford (1976)
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Documentary about the films of John Ford....
- 1966
Das Vöglein (1966)
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Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict....
- 1970
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)
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- 1977
Karawane der Wörter (1977)
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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 to Cologne. It's about reading the right texts, deciphering secret messages, the violence that emana...