Barrage and Bunker(1991)

Name: Barrage and Bunker
Director: Hartmut Bitomsky
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1991-01-01
Duration: 52 min
Cast: Hartmut Bitomsky, Christian Petzold, Ronny Tanner

Hartmut Bitomsky Christian Petzold Ronny Tanner

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.