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Jan 27, 2024 · Bringing up two children in Amsterdam, filmmaker Steve McQueen and his wife, historian Bianca Stigter, sent their oldest daughter to a well-regarded secondary school, Gerrit van der Veen...
Bianca Stigter, Lady McQueen is a Dutch film director from Amsterdam. She directed Three Minutes: A Lengthening. She is married to director Steve McQueen, and was associate producer on his films Widows and 12 Years a Slave.
Mar 22, 2022 · Stigter makes clear that the documentarian can assist those fingers, theirs and trans-historically ours, without aspiring to close wounds, passively mourn them, or, with distance, analyze them. Finding exactly what you are looking for is merely to create a murder mystery.
Jan 4, 2024 · “Occupied City” is also something of a memorial, and so, too, is Amsterdam itself — an idea that McQueen and his chief collaborator, the Dutch-born writer and filmmaker Bianca Stigter (“Three...
Feb 6, 2024 · The Oscar-winning '12 Years a Slave' director Steve McQueen and his wife, historian Bianca Stigter, have brought Amsterdam’s Nazi history out of the shadows in their new film, ‘Occupied City’.
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Dec 25, 2023 · AB: The retail-level murder. SM: There's a certain distance you take from history. But what happened during the process, for me, at least—and definitely for Bianca, because she’s been looking for 20 years—it became personal.
Feb 6, 2024 · Steve McQueen’s film is based on a systematic documenting of every address in Amsterdam mentioned in his partner Bianca Stigter’s book, Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945 (2019). These are places of atrocity and resistance, complicity and defiance, memory and forgetting: all the moral complexities of being under occupation.
