Steve McQueen
The Play for Tomorrow: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
By Michael Sicinski | 12/22/2020 | CS85, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Michael Sicinski One of the best known of Steve McQueen’s early video works is Deadpan (1997), a four-minute, 35-second loop in which the artist simultaneously places himself in harm’s way and in film history. The piece is a recreation of the famous Buster Keaton stunt from Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) in which the façade…
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By Andrew Tracy | 12/20/2011 | CS49, Currency, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Andrew Tracy At the midpoint of Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008), what had heretofore been a largely dialogue-free immersion into the sights, sounds, and smells of an Irish prison takes a pointed interlude for a veritable torrent of discourse. In a lengthy, unbroken two-shot followed by two shorter close-ups, Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) and Father…
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