Movies

Documentary about highway constructions in Nazi Germany.

Short thriller about an older woman and an escaped convict.

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...

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

A detailed, historical documentary about the construction and capabilities of the United States military's B-52 bomber.

A man and a woman meet in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Documentary about the films of John Ford.

Hans Scharoun has built houses which show not only structural substance and aesthetic forms but also how human beings should live in buildings. This...

Alexander Kluge and Hartmut Bitomsky discuss the film Staub (Dust). Dust is called “matter in the wrong place.” In fact, dust is an...

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...

Bitomskys new film was inspired by the Japanese shakkei, which stands for the “borrowing” of a landscape. Japanese gardens are often...

"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....

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...