Hito Steyerl Movies

  • 2014
    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

    This Is Cosmos

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    Based on the ideas of Russian philosopher, Nikolai Fedorov, Anton Vidokle’s film was shot in Siberia, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Fedorov, like...

    This Is Cosmos
  • 2019
    This Is The Future

    This Is The Future

    This Is The Future

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    As part of an art installation, Steyerl uses AI technology to create a garden of the future that emulates the Venetian landscape of elevated...

    This Is The Future
  • 2016
    The Tower

    The Tower

    The Tower

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    Steyerl’s immersive installation focuses on the making of the video game "Skyscraper: Stairway to Chaos" by the Ukrainian company Ace3D, based...

    The Tower
  • 2019
    Leonardo’s Submarine

    Leonardo’s Submarine

    Leonardo’s Submarine

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    The German artist Hito Steyerl has used her work in the Venice Biennale to call out one of the world’s biggest weapons companies for...

    Leonardo’s Submarine
  • 2004
    November

    November

    November

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    In the eighties, Hito Steyerl shot a feminist martial arts film on Super-8 stock. Her best friend Andrea Wolf played the lead role, that of a woman...

    November
  • 2020
    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space

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    An oral history of Artists Space, the legendary New York artists organization. Told through the voices of the artists, critics and curators who...

    The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
  • 2017
    Immortality and Resurrection For All!

    Immortality and Resurrection For All!

    Immortality and Resurrection For All!

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    The last film in Vidokle's trilogy on Cosmism is a meditation on the museum as the site of resurrection-a central idea for many Cosmist thinkers,...

    Immortality and Resurrection For All!
  • 2007
    Lovely Andrea

    Lovely Andrea

    Lovely Andrea

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    If all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through...

    Lovely Andrea
  • 2015
    The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

    The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

    The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

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    The second installment of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmism, The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun, looks at the poetic...

    The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
  • 2014
    Liquidity Inc.

    Liquidity Inc.

    Liquidity Inc.

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    Liquidity Inc. takes up liquidity as a concept in all of its physical, metaphorical, bodily, spiritual, meteorological, and financial forms

    Liquidity Inc.
  • 1998
    The Empty Center

    The Empty Center

    The Empty Center

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    Steyerl’s film traces the impact of an influx of transnational companies on the city dwellers of Berlin in post-reunification Germany. The...

    The Empty Center
  • 2012
    The Kiss

    The Kiss

    The Kiss

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    Using video, sculpture and archival material, the work gives form to a dramatic event that took place in 1993 during the war in Bosnia, when a...

    The Kiss
  • 2010
    Strike

    Strike

    Strike

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    It begins with a blank screen. The word ‘STRIKE’ appears across it, in white capital letters against a black background. Then a woman...

    Strike
  • 2012
    Leibnitz' Skull

    Leibnitz' Skull

    Leibnitz' Skull

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    The exhibition „Mengele's Skull“ is structured around a specially commissioned book of the same title co-authored by Thomas Keenan and...

    Leibnitz' Skull
  • 2020
    We Will Survive TV

    We Will Survive TV

    We Will Survive TV

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    During the corona-related shutdown in November 2020, Hito Steyerl’s exhibition I Will Survive at K21 (September 26, 2020—January 10,...

    We Will Survive TV
  • 2012
    Abstract

    Abstract

    Abstract

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    Abstract (2012) is a return to the contested narrative of Andrea Wolf’s death, with Steyerl traveling to Kurdistan in search of information...

    Abstract
  • 2010
    In Free Fall

    In Free Fall

    In Free Fall

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    The space of the junkyard allows various ‘crash’ narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual crashes and the remnants and afterlife...

    In Free Fall
  • 1988
    Stachoviak!

    Stachoviak!

    Stachoviak!

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    The story of the good citizen and postworker Bernhardt Stachoviak, who ends up running amok. Others would say: Out of his immense hatred towards...

    Stachoviak!
  • 2007
    Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

    Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

    Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

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    In 1947, two years after the end of the Second World War, Film Journal No. 1 was released in Sarajevo. Fifty years later, after the collapse of the...

    Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression
  • 2012
    Adorno's Grey

    Adorno's Grey

    Adorno's Grey

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    Adorno’s Grey features a single-channel video set in the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, where German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno...

    Adorno's Grey