Occupied City + Introduction + Recorded Q&A

This screening is hosted in association with the Bath-Alkmaar Twinning Association, who will join us to introduce Occupied City. The film will be followed by a recorded Q&A with director Steve McQueen. Includes a 20-minute intermission.

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. 

In Occupied City, a searching camera sweeps through a vibrant contemporary Amsterdam while, at the same time, the film summons people and memories of the past under Nazi occupation within the city’s map and woven into the fabric of its streets and buildings. Using no archival footage, nor a single interview,  McQueen opens up a poetic, dreamlike space where unthinkable history and hope for a new future co-exist.