Steve McQueen

A door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts Amsterdam, and a journey through the last years of pandemic and protest.

A door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts Amsterdam, and a journey through the last years of pandemic and protest.

'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' muestra una película casera rodada por David Kurtz en 1938 en un pueblo judío de Polonia e intenta posponer su final. Siempre y cuando estemos viéndola, la historia no se va a terminar. Los tres minutos de grabación, mayormente en color, son las únicas imágenes en movimiento que quedan de los habitantes judíos de Nasielsk antes del Holocausto. Los tres minutos existentes son examinados para desentrañar las historias que esconde el celuloide. La grabación está editada de forma imaginativa para crear un documental que dura más de una hora. Las diferentes voces mejoran las imágenes. Glenn Kurtz, el nieto de David Kurtz, aporta sus conocimientos sobre la grabación. Maurice Chandler, que aparece en el documental de niño, comparte sus recuerdos. La actriz Helana Bonham Carter narra el ensayo de la película.

"El rey León", "Gladiator" o "Dune" son algunos de las cintas a las que "el omnipresente Zimmer" ha puesto música. "Hans Zimmer. La BSO de Hollywood" recorre los mejores trabajos de uno de los mejores compositores de bandas sonoras de todos los tiempos.Desde sus primeros años de vida en Frankfurt (en los que, paradójicamente, fue expulsado de ocho escuelas y las disputas con sus profesores de piano se sucedían) hasta sus dos premios Oscar, este documental navega por los momentos clave que han marcado la carrera del prolífico compositor. El propio Hans Zimmer repasa su obra y nos hace partícipes del fascinante proceso de creación de sus partituras. Ha colaborado con algunos de los mejores directores de Hollywood: Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen o Denis Villeneuve se unen al documental para rendir homenaje a un hombre que ha revolucionado la forma de componer partituras.

Durante una carrera excepcional que abarca 40 años, Brad Pitt ha logrado una triple hazaña: escapar al destino que parecía esperarlo, conseguir que Hollywood ceda ante sus habilidades y, al mismo tiempo, renovar el cine estadounidense con su aire fresco e innovador.

Steve McQueen’s first new artwork since his major commission Year 3 at Tate Britain in 2019, Sunshine State is a two-channel video projection shown on both sides of two screens placed one next to the other. Opening with footage of a burning sun, the work unfolds exploring images from the musical drama The Jazz Singer (1927), starring the famous singer Al Jolson. The film is known as the first "talkie" in the history of cinema that uses synchronised dialogue.

El escándalo de las escuelas del Reino Unido a través de los ojos de padres, maestros y activistas negros que se unieron para exponer la injusticia y obligar al sistema educativo a cambiar.

El movimiento Black Power nació a fines de la década de 1960, cuando se enfrentó a la brutalidad policial y el racismo.

Adaptación cinematográfica de 'Las viudas', miniserie británica de 1983, aquí ambientada en Chicago en la actualidad, sobre cuatro mujeres con nada en común excepto una deuda heredada por las actividades criminales de sus difuntos maridos. Verónica, Alice, Linda y Belle, deciden tomar las riendas de su destino y conspiran para forjarse un futuro con sus propias reglas.

Adaptación cinematográfica de 'Las viudas', miniserie británica de 1983, aquí ambientada en Chicago en la actualidad, sobre cuatro mujeres con nada en común excepto una deuda heredada por las actividades criminales de sus difuntos maridos. Verónica, Alice, Linda y Belle, deciden tomar las riendas de su destino y conspiran para forjarse un futuro con sus propias reglas.

Adaptación cinematográfica de 'Las viudas', miniserie británica de 1983, aquí ambientada en Chicago en la actualidad, sobre cuatro mujeres con nada en común excepto una deuda heredada por las actividades criminales de sus difuntos maridos. Verónica, Alice, Linda y Belle, deciden tomar las riendas de su destino y conspiran para forjarse un futuro con sus propias reglas.

For her extraordinary film essay, Living the Light, Director and Director of Photography Claire Pijman had access to the thousands of Hi8 video diaries, pictures and Polaroids that Müller photographed while he was at work on one of the more than 70 features he shot throughout his career; often with long term collaborators such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. The film intertwines these images with excerpts of his oeuvre, thus creating a fluid and cinematic continuum. In his score for Living the Light Jim Jarmusch gives this wide raging scale of life and art an additional musical voice.

Ashes (2002-2015) a double video projection, tells the story of a young Caribbean man known by this name. In 2002 while shooting Caribs' Leap in Grenada, McQueen met and filmed a young man called Ashes, but the footage was not used. Many years later he learned that Ashes had been killed. McQueen decided to create a tribute to him, combining old and new footage. On one side of the screen, Ashes is full of life, his boat moving towards a seemingly unending horizon. The other side shows his tomb being constructed and the etching of a memorial plaque for his grave. Over the soundtrack, two local men tell the story of Ashes's untimely death.

Basada en un hecho real ocurrido en 1850, narra la historia de Solomon Northup, un culto músico negro -y hombre libre- que vivía con su familia en Nueva York. Tras compartir una copa con dos desconocidos, Solomon descubre que ha sido drogado y secuestrado para ser vendido como esclavo en el Sur en una plantación de Louisiana. Renunciando a abandonar la esperanza, Solomon contempla cómo todos a su alrededor sucumben a la violencia, al abuso emocional y a la desesperanza. Entonces decide correr riesgos increíbles y confiar en la gente menos aparente para intentar recuperar su libertad y reunirse con su familia.

Basada en un hecho real ocurrido en 1850, narra la historia de Solomon Northup, un culto músico negro -y hombre libre- que vivía con su familia en Nueva York. Tras compartir una copa con dos desconocidos, Solomon descubre que ha sido drogado y secuestrado para ser vendido como esclavo en el Sur en una plantación de Louisiana. Renunciando a abandonar la esperanza, Solomon contempla cómo todos a su alrededor sucumben a la violencia, al abuso emocional y a la desesperanza. Entonces decide correr riesgos increíbles y confiar en la gente menos aparente para intentar recuperar su libertad y reunirse con su familia.

Brandon, un hombre de treinta y tantos años que vive en Nueva York, evita la intimidad con las mujeres pero alimenta sus deseos más profundos con una adicción compulsiva al sexo. Cuando su hermana menor se muda temporalmente a su apartamento, despertando amargos recuerdos de un doloroso pasado en común, Brandon, cuya frágil mente se desmorona, pierde paulatinamente el control de su vida.

Brandon, un hombre de treinta y tantos años que vive en Nueva York, evita la intimidad con las mujeres pero alimenta sus deseos más profundos con una adicción compulsiva al sexo. Cuando su hermana menor se muda temporalmente a su apartamento, despertando amargos recuerdos de un doloroso pasado en común, Brandon, cuya frágil mente se desmorona, pierde paulatinamente el control de su vida.

Giardini, a visually sumptuous film of 30 minutes, is composed of two projections set side-by-side, which steadily gather a series of evocative vignettes. As the title suggests, the film is set in the famous exhibitions grounds in Venice – as T.J. Demos writes in his essay in 'Giardini Notebook' "the location of the ageing national pavilions. These otherwise well known monuments are shown here in an unexpected light, during the interim between biennales, in the down-time and during the nights, in the shadows of spectacle."

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It was shot shortly after the monument was fully re-opened following the September 11th attacks. Flying alongside the statue, the camera presents us with startling close-up views of its oxidised copper surface. The continual sense of movement is disorienting, undermining its sense of permanence and stability.

Hunger describe la vida en la Maze Prison, una cárcel de máxima seguridad de Irlanda del norte, a través de los emotivos acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en 1981 con motivo de la huelga de hambre del IRA, liderada por Bobby Sands. Desde un punto de vista épico, la película narra lo que ocurre cuando se obliga al cuerpo y a la mente a actuar por encima del límite. Aclamada ópera prima del director y guionista Steve McQueen. Premio Cámara de Oro de Un Certain Regard en Cannes.

Hunger describe la vida en la Maze Prison, una cárcel de máxima seguridad de Irlanda del norte, a través de los emotivos acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en 1981 con motivo de la huelga de hambre del IRA, liderada por Bobby Sands. Desde un punto de vista épico, la película narra lo que ocurre cuando se obliga al cuerpo y a la mente a actuar por encima del límite. Aclamada ópera prima del director y guionista Steve McQueen. Premio Cámara de Oro de Un Certain Regard en Cannes.

Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech apparatus. The film cuts between two sites: a technological, highly automated industrial plant in the West where the precious metal is processed for the final production of microelectronic parts, and the central Congo, where miners use simple shovels or their bare hands to extract, wash and collect the ore on leaves. IThe realism of the film images is intercut with a black-and-white animation of the Congo River. Its sinuous shape conjures associations with networking and the flow of communications, underscored by a murmuring resembling thousands of voices in the cell phone network. In the meantime, coltan, traded at an extremely high price, represents one of the key financial factors in the armed conflict of the militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where decades of civil war have cost several million human lives.

A close-up fixes on the eye of British actor Charlotte Rampling. McQueen's finger moves around her eye, pulling the skin and momentarily touching her eyeball. Rampling's eye continually adjusts to the movement of the finger, just as the camera lens goes in and out of focus. Suffused in red, Charlotte is a reflection on the act of looking.

Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep comprises two complementary films that are shown together as a three-screen, synchronised colour video projection. The films were originally commissioned for the Documenta 11 exhibition in Kassel, Germany in 2002. They were then screened in London by Artangel in the former Lumiere Cinema on St Martins Lane in the autumn of that same year.

An exploration of the sensory experience of the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, showing migrant labourers working in dark, claustrophobic environments and the ear-splitting noise of drilling. The TauTona mine in South Africa, known as 'Western Deep' is the world's deepest gold mine. Employing more than 5,000 people, it operates twenty-four hours day. The film begins in complete darkness as the miners descend three-and-a-half kilometres underground. McQueen documents an intense work regime where the temperature can reach over ninety degrees celsius. Accompanied by jarring sounds created by the mechanical equipment, Western Deep is a hellish representation of labour that makes the silent resolve of the miners all the more powerful.

Director Steve McQueen films Trip-Hop artist Tricky recording 'Girls' In the tight confines of a recording booth, the musician Adrian Thomas, also known as Tricky, repeatedly performs the song 'girls' from his album Blowback (2001). The intimate and highly charged atmosphere of the studio is complemented by lyrics that explore the relationships between girls, boys and absent fathers.

Director Steve McQueen films Trip-Hop artist Tricky recording 'Girls' In the tight confines of a recording booth, the musician Adrian Thomas, also known as Tricky, repeatedly performs the song 'girls' from his album Blowback (2001). The intimate and highly charged atmosphere of the studio is complemented by lyrics that explore the relationships between girls, boys and absent fathers.

The title refers to the day McQueen's cousin Marcus accidentally shot his brother. On the soundtrack, Marcus tells a story while a single backlit photographic slide shows him lying on his back, the top of his head dominating the frame. The contrast between the still image and the momentum of the narrative emphasises the intimate exchange that takes place when a tale is shared. The scar on Marcus's head, Mc Queen says, 'is another story'.

McQueen lies in bed in a Paris hotel, watching a dubbed TV programme about American special forces being trained for combat in Afghanistan. Shot using a domestic digital camera, the artist's body is illuminated by the flickering glow of the TV screen.

Cold Breath depicts the artist stroking, pulling and squeezing his nipple. Through a gesture that appears tender one moment and violent the next, the film is an intimate exploration of flesh as material.

Cold Breath depicts the artist stroking, pulling and squeezing his nipple. Through a gesture that appears tender one moment and violent the next, the film is an intimate exploration of flesh as material.

McQueen lies in bed in a Paris hotel, watching a dubbed TV programme about American special forces being trained for combat in Afghanistan. Shot using a domestic digital camera, the artist's body is illuminated by the flickering glow of the TV screen.

McQueen lies in bed in a Paris hotel, watching a dubbed TV programme about American special forces being trained for combat in Afghanistan. Shot using a domestic digital camera, the artist's body is illuminated by the flickering glow of the TV screen.

The film documents two men carrying palm trees through the streets of East London. McQueen tracked the men through a bustling Brick Lane market.

The film documents two men carrying palm trees through the streets of East London. McQueen tracked the men through a bustling Brick Lane market.

The film documents two men carrying palm trees through the streets of East London. McQueen tracked the men through a bustling Brick Lane market.

Deadpan is a four-minute installation film in which McQueen re-stages a death-defying Buster Keaton stunt. The side of a house is filmed toppling again and again from all angles onto an unflinching McQueen, who survives thanks to a carefully positioned window.

Deadpan is a four-minute installation film in which McQueen re-stages a death-defying Buster Keaton stunt. The side of a house is filmed toppling again and again from all angles onto an unflinching McQueen, who survives thanks to a carefully positioned window.

The artist walks with a stride, his camera pointed up from around his stomach. The sky, some trees and occasionally his head pops up in the lower third. The title is taken from an essay by James Baldwin.

Outlines the themes and artistic strategies that have guided McQueen’s work since he emerged in the mid-1990s. Marked by spatial, temporal, and narrative disjointedness and ambiguity, the work’s movements cohere into an orchestrated meditation on film itself. Its five "pieces" are united as experiments in cinematic form—the rhythmic exercises of the bodies throughout it are mirrored by the focus of the camera through formal experiments.

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homoeroticism and violence. It depicts two naked men – one of whom is the artist – tussling and teasing one another in an encounter which shifts between tenderness and aggression. The film is silent but a series of stares, glances and winks between the protagonists creates an optical language of flirtation and threat.

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homoeroticism and violence. It depicts two naked men – one of whom is the artist – tussling and teasing one another in an encounter which shifts between tenderness and aggression. The film is silent but a series of stares, glances and winks between the protagonists creates an optical language of flirtation and threat.

video, sequence of digitally scanned files, sound video: 12 hours 54 minutes, continuous projection audio: 67 hours 4 minutes 43 seconds

Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the aerial bombing of the British capital during the war.

Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the aerial bombing of the British capital during the war.

Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the aerial bombing of the British capital during the war.

An authorized documentary on the life of Tupac Shakur.

A look at the life and work of actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson.

A look at the life and work of actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson.

A look at the life and work of actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson.

A chronicle of the life of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician and political force who invented Afro-beat music and introduced it to the world.