Steve McQueen

McQueen came to features from video art and won the Turner Prize, and his camera stays on bodies in pain for longer than is comfortable. In Shame, Brandon, a thirty-something New Yorker with a compulsive sex addiction, has his sister move in. 12 Years a Slave follows Solomon Northup, a free man abducted and sold into slavery, and won the Oscar for Best Picture. Occupied City is a four-hour documentary about the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam.

Signature

• Long, unbroken takes.
• The body as the site of suffering.
• Michael Fassbender in Shame and 12 Years a Slave.
• History laid over the present (Occupied City).