Farewell to Hartmut Bitomsky

When Hartmut Bitomsky returned from the United States to Berlin to take on the position of director of the German Film and Television Academy (dffb), Arsenal greeted him with a retrospective of his films. The Filmhaus (Arsenal, Deutsche Kinemathek and dffb) now says farewell to Bitomsky, who will leave the dffb for health reasons. On this occasion, the media scholar Dietrich Leder will talk about Bitomsky's films and texts. Bitomsky wrote about the film of the evening, JACKSON COUNTY JAIL (Michael Miller, USA 1976): "Each shot is taken with an eye for reality, and reality is shot with an eye for cinema. The film is edited like crazy, hell for leather. People were at work here without ulterior motives. They are as hard-boiled and mean as the story they came up with." We are looking forward to greeting Hartmut Bitomsky as well as Barbara Kisseler (Head of the Senate Chancellery) and Christian Petzold. (Bodo Knapheide) (Sept. 26)