Film Details
Playing in THE ORIGINAL.
Followed by a Live Q&A with Steve McQueen & Bianca Stigter.
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.
Please note there are no ads or trailers with this performance and the film will start at 2pm prompt.
Director: Steve McQueen
Certificate: 12A
Spoken Language: English, Dutch
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 266 minutes