Hito Steyerl Movies

  • 2016
    Robots Today

    Robots Today

    Robots Today

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    The film uses footage from south-eastern Turkey of the Kurdish town of Cizre on the Syrian border, which now resembles a ghost town following...

    Robots Today
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1970
    Mechanical Kurds

    Mechanical Kurds

    Mechanical Kurds

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    Mechanical Kurds
  • 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
  • 2004
    Universal Embassy

    Universal Embassy

    Universal Embassy

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    A short documentary about the Universal Embassy. After the collapse of the Somali government twenty years ago, its embassy in Brussels was left...

    Universal Embassy
  • 2015
    Factory of the Sun

    Factory of the Sun

    Factory of the Sun

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    In this immersive work, which debuted at the 2015 German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Steyerl probes the pleasures and perils of image...

    Factory of the Sun
  • 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