Steve McQueen To Debut Film Project Centered On Grenfell Tower Fire That Killed 72 People Next Month In London
deadline.comOscar-winning filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen is set to debut his latest project, a 24-minute film about the Grenfell Tower disaster, next month at the Serpentine art Gallery in West London.
The film, titled Grenfell, was shot in December 2017 and is described as McQueen’s “response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy,” which saw 72 people killed as the result of a devastating fire at the high-rise Grenfell tower apartment block in North Kensington, West London.
The tragedy caused the UK’s highest loss of life following a residential fire since the Second World War. McQueen’s film is said to run 24 minutes long and features footage of the charred tower shot from a helicopter.
There is no narrative story or dramatization within the installation. “There are going to be people who are going to be a little bit disturbed,” McQueen told the British newspaper The Guardian about the installation in a new interview. “When you make art, anything half decent … there are certain people you will possibly offend.
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