Occupied City + Satellite Q&A with Steve McQueen & Bianca Stigter

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BBFC RatingOccupied City + Satellite Q&A with Steve McQueen & Bianca Stigter

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Certificate12A
Year2023
GenreDocumentary
Director(s)Steve McQueen
LanguageEnglish, Dutch
CountryUK, Netherlands, USA
Running Time4HR 26MINS
Extra InfoIncludes a 15-minute intermission
SeasonMain Programme

Where do the memories of a city go? From Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen, comes this mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present: mirroring it and warning us in plain sight.

Informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 written by Bianca Stigter, the documentary creates two interlocking portraits. One shows the city’s devastating Nazi occupation through door-to-door accounts – tales of Jewish persecution, of resistance, collaboration, valour, and denial. The other is a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. The combination has a transformative effect with which McQueen opens up a poetic, dreamlike space where unthinkable history and hope for a new future co-exist.

The film's runtime is 266 mins, including a 15-min intermission halfway through. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, broadcast live from the Barbican in London. The event will finish at 7.05pm.

“The monumental film which tracks day-to-day life in Amsterdam under Nazi rule asks hard questions of what we think about the gulf between past and present”  ★★★★★  The Guardian


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