Hito Steyerl

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Film Director · Germany · Female

Hito Steyerl (born 1966 in Munich) is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin . 2Life and career Steyerl was born in 1966 in Munich. Steyerl attended the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. She later studied at the University of Television and Film Munich. Steyerl has noted that studying film during the rise of New German Cinema had an effect on her as a student. However, she has cited her former professor, the noted film historian Helmut Färber, as having a more direct influence on her work. In 2004 she participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Ar

From “Liquidity Inc.”

“You will ask yourself questions like: what is the history of wind? How did this gust arrive here? Where did it come from and who am I to be blown by it? The storm is blowing people back to their homes, blowing goods back to their factories, blowing factories back to their countries, blowing people…”