november
In the eighties Hito Steyerl shot a feminist martial arts film on Super-8 stock. Her best friend Andrea Wolf played the lead role, that of a woman warrior dressed in leather and mounted on a motorcycle. The engagement expressed in the formal grammar of exploitation films later became Wolf´s political praxis: She went to fight alongside the PKK in the Kurdish regions between Turkey and northern Iraq, where she was killed in 1998. Now honored by Kurds as an "immortal revolutionary," her portrait is carried at demonstrations.
In november Hito Steyerl examines the spectrum of interrelationships between territorial power...
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Orig. Title
november
november
Year
2004
2004
Countries
Austria, Germany
Austria, Germany
Duration
25 min
25 min