Hito Steyerl Quotes

Hito Steyerl

Profession : Director

Birth : January 1, 1966

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.

Hito Steyerl

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

Hito Steyerl

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

Hito Steyerl

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.

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.

Hito Steyerl

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

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.

Hito Steyerl