How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational. Mov File
2013, 16’
written and directed by Hito Steyerl
photography Christoph Manz (Berlino), Kevan Jenson (Los Angeles)
make-up and design Lea Søvsø
coreography and performance Arthur Stäldi
post-production Christoph Manz, Leon Kahane, Alwin Franke
producer Kavan Jenson
commissioned by Massimiliano Gioni, Venice Biennale.
with the support of  The International Production Fund (IPF) - 2013 
partners Outset England, Dermegon Daskalopoulos Foundation for Culture and Development, Outset USA, Outset Netherlands with Promoters Van Abbemuseum, Maurice Marciano Family Foundation, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam.

Based on a famous sketch by Monty Python--from which it derives its title--this video, produced for the Venice Biennale 2013, is a tongue-in-cheek set of instructions (replete with demonstrations and virtual simulations) on how to achieve invisibility in the digital age.

Hito Steyerl 
(Munich, 1966. Lives and works in Berlin) is a filmmaker, artist and writer. She has published many books, including The Green Room. Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art(Sternberg Press 2008). She teaches Experimental Film and Video at UdK Berlin and has held courses at the Dutch Art Institute, the Malmö Art Academy, Akademie der bildenden künste in Vienna, the Royal Art Academy of Copenhagen, and Goldsmiths College of London, among others.
She was Wim Wenders’ assistant on his films Till the End of the World and So Far, So Near.
Among her more recent one-woman shows: ICA, London; Van Abbenmuseum, Eindhoven; and the Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); e-flux New York; Wilfried Lentz in Rotterdam (2012). She has shown at Biennales in Venice, Istanbul (2013), Gwangju (2010), Shanghai (2008), Berlin (2004), and at documenta 12 KASSEL (2007), and Manifesta 5 (2005). Her films were presented at Festivals in Oberhausen and Rotterdam (2013), Copenhagen (2010), Loop (2010), as well as in major museums and art centers world-wide, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Stedelijk, Amsterdam; MCA, Chicago; HKW, Berlin; the Museum of Photograhy, Tokyo; MACBA, Barcelona; CCA, Glasgow, and the Tate Gallery, London.