November 2004 Directed by Hito Steyerl

In the eighties, Hito Steyerl shot a feminist martial arts film on Super-8 stock. Her best friend Andrea Wolf played the lead role, that of a woman warrior dressed in leather and mounted on a motorcycle. The engagement expressed in the formal grammar of exploitation films later became Wolf’s political praxis: She went to fight alongside the PKK in the Kurdish regions between Turkey and northern Iraq, where she was killed in 1998. Now honoured by Kurds as an “immortal revolutionary,” her portrait is carried at demonstrations.

Countries Austria , USA
Production Countries Austria , Germany
Language English
Spoken Languages English , German
Gnere Thriller
Release Date 8 November 2004
25 mins
Cast
Andrea Wolf Self (archive footage)