Two years ago, British artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen delivered a different, fresher perspective on a documentary about the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam.
Instead of images of swastika flags, talking head interviews and a wealth of archive footage, his documentary Occupied City - adapted from his wife Bianca Stigter’s Dutch-language book "Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945" - offered a meticulously researched chronicle that let the audible past collide with the visual present.
