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.

Directed

1. How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) — Director
2. November (2004) — Director
3. Lovely Andrea (2007) — Director
4. The Tower (2016) — Director
5. Leonardo’s Submarine (2019) — Director
6. In Free Fall (2010) — Director
7. Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression (2007) — Director
8. The Empty Center (1998) — Director
9. Liquidity Inc. (2014) — Director
10. Strike II (2012) — Director
11. Factory of the Sun (2015) — Director
12. Abstract (2012) — Director
13. Guards (2012) — Director
14. Universal Embassy (2004) — Director
15. Adorno's Grey (2012) — Director
16. HellYeahWeFuckDie (2016) — Director
17. Robots Today (2016) — Director
18. Is the Museum a Battlefield? (2013) — Director
19. Drill (2019) — Director
20. Normalität 1-10 (1999) — Director
21. The Kiss (2012) — Director
22. Leibnitz' Skull (2012) — Director
23. Strike (2010) — Director
24. We Will Survive TV (2020) — Director
25. This Is The Future (2019) — Director
26. Mechanical Kurds (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Lovely Andrea (2007) — Herself
2. Strike II (2012)
3. The Business of Thought: A Recorded History of Artists Space (2020) — Self
4. In Free Fall (2010) — Self