This volume includes numerous essays written by Bitomsky for the magazine 'Filmkritik', texts about his own films, about directors such as John Ford, Godard, Bresson, among others, as well as about recent works created during his teaching at the CalArts film academy in Los Angeles. Particularly noteworthy is Bitomsky's 'B-52 Working Journal', which is published here for the first time and documents the work on his latest film about the B-52 bombers. The texts share a common thread of independent thinking and a deep love for cinema—qualities that elevate them far beyond the conventional academic and journalistic discourse.