9.2.24 - Steve McQueen ‘Occupied City’ released in UK cinemas today
Steve McQueen’s documentary Occupied City is released in UK cinemas today.
Based on Bianca Stigter's book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945), in Occupied City McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. This monumental work quietly asks us to confront the range of dissonances between the traumatic past and a mundane present haunted, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we are headed.
An Event Screening Day, including a Q&A with Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, will be broadcast to cinemas nationwide live from The Barbican on Sunday 11 February, 2–7pm. Further information
Based on Bianca Stigter's book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945), in Occupied City McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. This monumental work quietly asks us to confront the range of dissonances between the traumatic past and a mundane present haunted, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we are headed.
An Event Screening Day, including a Q&A with Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, will be broadcast to cinemas nationwide live from The Barbican on Sunday 11 February, 2–7pm. Further information