Hartmut Bitomsky — Director (3)

Movie

Imaginary Architecture, the architect Hans Scharoun (1995)
Imaginäre Architektur - Der Baumeister Hans Scharoun IMDb TMDB
other title: Imaginäre Architektur - Der Baumeister Hans Scharoun
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 several of Scharoun's buildings.

Movie

Barrage and Bunker (1991)
Kino Flächen Bunker IMDb TMDB
other title: Kino Flächen Bunker
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 Cinema Trilogy. Sequences from over 20 movies are quoted and commented on by a team of three "researchers" (Bitomsky, Petzold, Tanner) in a sort of laboratory. TV-monitors, production stills and screenshots are used as well as quotations from books. A long night's work.