Hito Steyerl Movies

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

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

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

A film about museum guards with a background as law enforcement officers or military personnel.

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...

Hito Steyerl reveals her most recent installation in the U.S. to date, commissioned by the Armory and curated by Park Avenue Armory’s visual...

In Strike II, the artist and her daughter hit the camera with a pair of hammers, attacking image-making apparatus and representation.

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

What is declared normal by some and accepted as such by the majority sometimes represents a concrete threat to others. Normality 1-10, a series of...