November

A quiet, mournful essay that drifts between memory, image, and loss, leaving a lingering ache.

Directed by

Hito Steyerl

Genres

Thriller

Starring

Andrea Wolf

Overview

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.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Memory, grief, identity, politics

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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