This event is excluded from the Film Pass
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.
In Occupied City, a searching camera sweeps through a vibrant contemporary Amsterdam while, at the same time, the film summons people and memories of the past under Nazi occupation within the city’s map and woven into the fabric of its streets and buildings. McQueen opens up a poetic, dreamlike space where unthinkable history and hope for a new future co-exist.
Informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 by Bianca Stigter
The film’s runtime is 266 mins, including a 15-min intermission halfway through.
Event/ This special screening will be followed by a 30-minute live broadcast post-screening discussion with Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter. This screening is excluded from the HOME Film Pass
“Mysterious and moving.”The Guardian
“A singular masterwork.”Irish Times
“Hypnotic study of an Amsterdam still haunted by Nazis.”Daily Telegraph
“Startling and formally rigorous.”#4 - Manohla Dargis, Best Movies of 2023, The New York Times