Hito Steyerl
Biography
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, Maximilian Schmoetzer, and Boaz Levin.
Personal Details
Movies (31)
Mechanical Kurds
Director (Directing)
2025
We Will Survive TV
Director (Directing)
2020
The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space
as Self
2020
Drill
Director (Directing)
2019
This Is The Future
Director (Directing)
2019
Leonardo’s Submarine
Director (Directing)
2019
Immortality and Resurrection For All!
Thanks (Crew)
2017
The Tower
Director (Directing)
2016
HellYeahWeFuckDie
Director (Directing)
2016
Robots Today
Director (Directing)
2016
The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun
Thanks (Crew)
2015
Factory of the Sun
Director (Directing)
2015
Liquidity Inc.
Director (Directing)
2014
This Is Cosmos
Thanks (Crew)
2014
How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File
Director (Directing)
2013
Is the Museum a Battlefield?
Director (Directing)
2013
The Kiss
Director (Directing)
2012
Strike II
2012
Abstract
Director (Directing)
2012
Leibnitz' Skull
Director (Directing)
2012
Guards
Director (Directing)
2012
Adorno's Grey
Director (Directing)
2012
In Free Fall
Director (Directing)
2010
Strike
Director (Directing)
2010
Lovely Andrea
as Herself
2007
Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression
Director (Directing)
2007
November
Director (Directing)
2004
Universal Embassy
Director (Directing)
2004
Normalität 1-10
Director (Directing)
1999
The Empty Center
Director (Directing)
1998
Stachoviak!
Cinematography (Crew)
1988