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Hito Steyerl

I can’t describe what I do, I just potter along. But I do like the notion of an essay, something that can be text, or video, or something else altogether. Also, it means an experiment.

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Hito Steyerl

I like the combination of two different ideas that connect at an unexpected level.

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Hito Steyerl

While I was at film school, or even earlier, maybe the late 1980s, the market for independent-film production collapsed, and existing funding for long-form documentaries just stopped.

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I don’t want to make films that are so specialized that they’re only accessible to people with prior knowledge or histories or references.

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In my films, accessibility is something I do on purpose.

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We need, let’s say, municipal digital platforms, for teaching, for schooling, for education, but also, of course, for the arts.

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Hito Steyerl

I have been teaching on ‘Minecraft,’ actually: It’s a game for children, from 7 years old, and you get to build stuff with blocks. You can build fantasy worlds very quickly.

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Hito Steyerl

I’m all for health and safety regulations. But the thing I don’t understand is this: to put up a video, there’s a ton of health and safety regulations, which are really irrational, to the point of not being able to show an artwork. Then, when it comes to real people, where is health and safety?

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I don’t even have a high school degree. So I’m really used to being talked down to, and seen as someone who doesn’t have the education to comprehend. This is why I always try to create an entrance level for works.

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I think my approach is best summarised with the colloquial elephant in the room. These elephants are everywhere, but people pretend they aren’t there. That’s something that irritates me in a fundamental way.

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If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid approach would be to tell people off. It would be a surefire way not to get through to people.

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Hito Steyerl

I don’t like being lectured – and I expect my viewers don’t either.

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