Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Steve McQueen


Hunger, the 2008 film by the British artist Steve McQueen, should be available on dvd this month. It created a stir at Cannes because of an intense 17-minute shot in which a priest debates an Irish prison hunger-striker. This is the first feature film from an artist known for museum projections inspired by Buster Keaton, Jean Vigo, and Andy Warhol's Couch. I am anxious to see it.

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