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Hartmut Bitomsky was a German filmmaker and film producer. He was the director of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin from 2006 to 2009.
Total trailers found: 39
28 June 1971
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, alienation and fetish.
27 March 1975
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.
01 January 1991
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 first place? Where in its mis-en-scène would be the line drawn to a fictional film, if drawing a line would succeed at all? These are the kind of questions this film essay on the history and aesthetics of documentary film deals with in its seven chapters.
29 August 2007
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.
12 May 1976
Documentary about the films of John Ford.
01 July 1988
“Why does cinema need death, when it can’t show it?” The filmmaker’s monologue and the discot
31 December 1967
“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action.
25 October 2017
Bitomskys new film was inspired by the Japanese shakkei, which stands for the “borrowing” of a landscape.
14 May 1981
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK
01 May 2007
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.
07 October 1991
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.
17 May 2009
A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again.
14 October 1975
01 January 1968
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.
01 January 1966
Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.
07 January 2008
Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.
15 February 1986
While working on "Deutschlandbilder" (1983), Hartmut Bitomsky was examining film material produced by the Nazi regime when he came across an abundance of footage documenting the planning and construction of motorways.
15 November 1989
It takes a day and a half to assemble a VW Golf 2. Hartmut Bitmosky traces a car’s journey through the fully automated production lines in Wolfsburg and explores the development of the VW Group using archival footage.
20 December 1981
"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.
13 August 1983
IT specialist Victor Faber makes a living securing computers for large corporations and banks. His reclusive private life is upended when he falls in love with a strange woman named Juliet.
01 January 1995
Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings.
01 February 1970
Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.
14 November 1975
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 of monotony and frustration.
31 December 1977
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.
01 January 1997
James Benning's "Four Corners" uses a specific geographical location to pose larger questions about the United States.
01 January 1995
The film documents a debate about early 20th century films, mainly 1910 to 1920, from short news reels to excerpts from full-length movies.
24 January 1982
An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage, photographs, and philosophical dialogue, the film follows various characters — including an American soldier captured by North Vietnamese villagers — as they reflect on violence, memory, and image-making.
17 April 1970
A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and inserts them into a testing device.
13 February 2001
A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.
01 October 1969
A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training contracts of 18 students.
01 January 1976
A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest movement.
02 April 1995
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 throughout the years.
18 February 1984
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.
