Hartmut Bitomsky "The VW Complex" 1989, 90 min

The film essay The VW Complex , which combines historical and self-filmed material, begins with shots of a car graveyard and then turns its focus to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, which was built in 1938. In suggestive images, The VW Complex attempts an archaeology of recent German history using the example of the showpiece of German mass and war industry as well as the economic miracle, in the course of which, among other things, the Klein-Moskau barracks camp comes to light, where Russian forced laborers were housed during World War II. The factory and its machinery become a symbol for the structures of a society controlled from above.

Hartmut Bitomksy "Imaginary Architecture - The Master Builder Hans Scharoun", 1993, 60 min

The life and work of Hans Scharoun (1893-1972) is traced by means of selected architectural examples. The film brings the viewers closer to an architecture characterized by transparency, which still amazes with structural surprises. It was precisely through the comprehensive integration of different areas of life that this architectural utopia attempted to do justice to man himself - and not to reproduce him at will. With his concentrated and very functional film language, Hartmut Bitomsky presents himself as a relative in the spirit of Scharoun.