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Hito Steyerl: 'Being invisible can be deadly'

Directed by Jen Fearnley
Produced by Tate
Track title: "Asleep when Yr Awake"
Composer: Jamie Perera
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Hito Steyerl's film How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) takes the form of an instructional video which flips playfully between 'real world' footage and digital recreations.

Inspired by Monty Python, the work balances critique and humour, showing how 'not being seen' has both oppressive and liberating possibilities. Steyerl works across video and installation as well as delivering performative lectures. She appears in this work as a performer, making herself visible to us, in contrast to the conventional invisibility of the artist, seen only through their work.

JPML worked closely with director Jen Fearnley to source a soundtrack that was at once playful and meaningful with a nod to the digital realm.

Hito Steyerl's How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File 2013 was on display at Tate Modern in May 2016 
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