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Hunger Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Steve McQueen, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 2008, Runtime: 96 A pair of bloodied hands immerse themselves in a basin. Contraband packages pass silently, imperceptibly between inmates and their loved ones in the visiting room of Her Majesty’s Maze prison. And a young man of principle, delirious from starvation, bravely rallies against the dying of the light. These are among the strikingly impressionistic images that make up the masterful debut feature of Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen and deserving recipient of the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Though its primary subject is IRA member Bobby Sands and the 1981 hunger strike he waged in an effort to improve conditions for fellow political prisoners, the film is not a biopic but an intensely lyrical reverie on human suffering. The precision of McQueen’s visual compositions counterpoints the raw degradation to which his characters are subjected. Hunger is a provocative exploration of the politics of torture and the yearning for spiritual transcendence. An IFC Films release. Steve McQueen b. 1969, London, England

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