Cinema and Death

Das Kino und der Tod

West Germany

1988

46 Min

German

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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ED Angelika Ludwig, Gisela Müller, Cornelia Schleheck

“Das Kino und der Tod/Cinema and Death”(1988), is one of his ‘Cinema Anthology’, which was made by extraordinary Bitomsky’s voice and movement of his hands that turn over photos of murder in films. It’s ‘a film noir as a film essay which analyzes film noir’. When he analyzes classic films like Hitchkock’s “Torn Curtain”, Lang’s “Hangmen also die”, Siegel’s “The Killers”, Aldrich’s “Kiss me deadly”,etc, each viewer tries to remake the images that always becomes uncertain in the memory, with the movement of Bitomsky’s hands and voice as a detective showing photos of evidence of murders. There is an astonishing moment of new discovery of the image which we remember as a movement of the film. —Akasaka Daisuke

Director

Hartmut Bitomsky

Hartmut Bitomsky, born in 1942 in Bremen, lives in Berlin, and works as a filmmaker, producer, and author. He first studied German literature and theater studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, and changed in 1966 to Deutsche Fillmakademie, today dffb. He was the first year there, together with Wolf Gremm and Wolfgang Petersen. After long years of working as dean at the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts, from 2006 to 2009 he was director of dffb. Since 2007, he has been professor for directing at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 1974 he founded Big Sky Film Production, which produces most of his films. —germangalleries.com