Steve McQueen's 'Occupied City': A Four-Hour Meditation on Wartime Amsterdam.

Steve McQueen's documentary film "Occupied City" is a moving meditation on Amsterdam's wartime history and psychogeography during Nazi occupation. The film is based on Bianca Stigter's book "Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945" and shows modern-day scenes of the city where the barbarity unfolded, with a calm narrative voiceover summarizing what happened in each particular spot. The film asks hard questions about the gulf between past and present and shows that the past and present are more fluid than we think. The effect is mysterious and moving.