Steve McQueen Movies

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

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

Director Steve McQueen attached three cameras to the front and each end of an oil drum and rolled it through the streets of Manhattan. The results...

Giardini, a visually sumptuous film of 30 minutes, is composed of two projections set side-by-side, which steadily gather a series of evocative...

Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech...

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive...

In December 2017 Steve McQueen made an artwork in response to the fire that took place earlier that year on 14 June at Grenfell Tower in North...

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.

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...

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

An authorized documentary on the life of Tupac Shakur.

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...

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...

Outlines the themes and artistic strategies that have guided McQueen’s work since he emerged in the mid-1990s. Marked by spatial, temporal, and...

McQueen lies in bed in a Paris hotel, watching a dubbed TV programme about American special forces being trained for combat in Afghanistan. Shot...

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...