Movies: Hartmut Bitomsky
- 1968
Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty (1968)
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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....
- 1979
Putting Things Straight (1979)
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- 1981
Kino 81 (1981)
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- 1983
Deutschlandbilder (1983)
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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...
- 1967
3000 Houses (1967)
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“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. In the end everybody goes their own way and leaves the city.” - Hartmut Bitomsky...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1970
Die Teilung aller Tage (1970)
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TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky....
- 1991
The Cinema and the Wind and Photography (1991)
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How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy, comes to its own right in the ...
- 1970
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)
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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....
- 2017
Shakkei. Geborgte Landschaften (2017)
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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...
- 1976
Der Schauplatz des Krieges. Das Kino von John Ford (1976)
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Documentary about the films of John Ford....
- 2008
Weltmacht Staub. Hartmut Bitomsky über einen unbesiegbaren Zustand der Materie (2008)
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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....
- 1975
Telekritik: Unter einem Himmel schwarz von Häusern von erloschenen Bränden schwarz (1975)
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