Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave” was released almost a century after D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” the first film ever to be screened at the White House. McQueen’s film,…
’s Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave” was released almost a century after D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation,” the first film ever to be screened at the White House. McQueen’s film, however, was not shown at the U.S. President’s official residence.
McQueen is in Rotterdam to showcase his most recent artwork, “Sunshine State,” his first since “Year 3” at Tate Britain in 2019. Originally commissioned by IFFR to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the piece was delayed by three years due to the pandemic but has finally found its way to the Dutch city for this year’s edition of the festival. The audiovisual piece is being exhibited at the Depot Boijmans van Beuningen museum.
“Sunshine State” juxtaposes an audio recording of McQueen recounting this story with images of Alan Crosland’s 1927 musical “The Jazz Singer” — the first-ever feature-length film with synchronized dialogue — and footage of the sun recorded by NASA. “He never told me about it before, so he had been carrying that around with him for over 50 years. He thought that he could tell me that at that time.
McQueen had wanted to work with “The Jazz Singer” for over 20 years, but struggled to obtain the rights from Warner Brothers. According to the filmmaker, this was because he “didn’t have the juice” yet, and, once his work became more prominent, he went straight to one of the heads of the studio and acquired permission to work with the footage, now in the public domain.
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