Hito Steyerl : In Free Fall

1 Oct-13 Nov 2010

Overview

"Falling is a transition. It is a movement from one position to another. In as much as it suggests failure or ruin, to love is also to fall. It is corruption, revolution and abandonment. It implies a relationship. Hito Steyerl's In Free Fall charts a singular object, the Boeing 707-700 4X-JYI airplane, in this process of falling. Less the story of an object's production and eventual obsolescence, In Free Fall documents a life made visible through consecutive moments of destruction." Gil Leung Hito Steyerl’s films are a montage of pop and politics, Hollywood and independent film, interviews and voice-over commentaries; all combined into provocative filmic analyses of the present. In Free Fall is a solo show by Hito Steyerl featuring a new film commissioned by Picture This in association with Collective, Edinburgh and Chisenhale, London that will be toured to each venue.