UC Berkeley Talks: Filmmaker Steve McQueen To Berkeley Students: 'Take A Risk'

Berkeley CA

08 May, 2021

4:36 AM

Description

Press release from the University of California, Berkeley: May 7, 2021 Read the transcript. Subscribe to Berkeley Talks, a Berkeley News podcast that features lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley. In this episode of Berkeley Talks, British filmmaker and video artist Steven McQueen, best known for his Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave, talks about his first experience at Tate Modern in London as an 8-year-old, how he's never pursued a project for the money and why he thinks experiencing art in the world — and not on a small screen in your hand — is so important. This March 30 talk was part of UC Berkeley's Arts + Design Thursdays, a lecture series on time-based media art that features leading media artists, curators and thinkers. The series was made possible with support from the Kramlich Art Foundation, run by Berkeley alumna Pamela Kramlich. Watch a video of the talk on the Arts + Design Vimeo channel. Listen to other episodes of Berkeley Talks: This press release was produced by the University of California, Berkeley. The views expressed here are the author's own.