SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
“This is vital cinema from a filmmaker with one eye on the not-so-distant past and the other on our precarious future.”
265 minutes (includes 15 minute intermission). Rated PG-13. Directed by Steve McQueen. In English and Dutch with English subtitles. DCP.
One of the year’s ten best films. - The New York Times, Los Angeles Times
The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.