The Tower (2016)
Overview
Steyerl’s immersive installation focuses on the making of the video game "Skyscraper: Stairway to Chaos" by the Ukrainian company Ace3D, based on Saddam Hussein’s unrealised plans to reconstruct the Tower of Babel in Babylon, the ancient capital that he began rebuilding in the 1980s.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ru |
| Popularity | 0.198 |
Directed By
Hito Steyerl
Crew
Hito Steyerl
Christoph Manz
Maximilian Schmoetzer
Harry Sanderson
Oleksiy Radynski
Savaş Boyraz
Kassem Mosse
Maximilian Schmoetzer
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