Grenfell: Steve McQueen's film is a silent, unflinching reminder of lives devastated by fire

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The 24-minute film – which the artist captured by helicopter in December 2017, six months after the fire – rotates around the Grenfell Tower in silence.

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  • The 24-minute film – which the artist captured by helicopter in December 2017, six months after the fire – rotates around the Grenfell Tower in silence.
  • The fire at west London’s Grenfell Tower broke out in the early hours of the morning, on 14 June 2017.
  • A government inquiry was launched, but the recommendations of the first phase of the report have yet to be implemented.
  • McQueen’s project aims to ensure that Grenfell “lives on in the mind of the nation and the world long after the covering went up”.
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