November 2004
November 2004
SUPER 8 FILM, VIDEO AND FOUND FOOTAGE, TRANSFERRED TO BETACAM SP, 4:3, BLACK AND WHITE AND COLOUR, STEREO, 25 MINUTES, GERMANY/AUSTRIA, GERMAN/ENGLISH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / CINEMATOGRAPHERS: HITO STEYERL AND STEFAN LANDORF / EDITOR: STEFAN LANDORF / ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: YASMINA DEKKAR / CAST: ANDREA WOLF, HITO STEYERL AND ULI MAICHLE / COMMISSIONED BY MANIFESTA 5 / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SIXPACKFILM, VIENNA
At 17, the artist’s best friend was Andrea Wolf, a charismatic girl who was shot in 1998 as a Kurdish terrorist. Setting up an essayist’s format, Steyerl includes footage from an early martial arts film ‘starring’ Andrea, as well as other found materials and news items relating to her life and public image. The artist’s voice-over explains: ‘We are not any longer in the period of the “October” described by Eisenstein, when the Cossacks decide to join the Russian proletarians and internationalist brotherhood during the Bolshevik Revolution. ‘Now we are in the period of November. In November, the former heroes become madmen and die in extralegal executions somewhere on a dirty roadside and hardly anyone takes a closer look.’
Contact: Film screened as part of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition only
Phone: Hito STEYERL
b. 1966 Munich, Germany
Lives in Berlin, Germany
