Cinemas: Occupied City – Film – HMD 2024
Activity information
Activity type: Public activity
Organisation name: Modern Films
Website: https://www.modernfilms.com/occupiedcity
Address:
Nationwide cinemas
LONDON
UK
W1F 9JW
United Kingdom
Occupied City + Live satellite 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.
Nationwide screenings, please find the listing here: https://www.modernfilms.com/occupiedcity
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