Steve McQueen is coming to talk ‘Small Axe.’ Here are his insights before Harvard hears them.

James Stopforth/Thomas Dane Gallery Filmmaker Steve McQueen is also Harvard’s curremnt Charles Eliot Norton professor of poetry.

English filmmaker Steve McQueen is one of the most fascinating and unclassifiable directors working. Best known for “12 Years a Slave” (2013), the Oscar-winning adaptation of the memoir of Solomon Northup, McQueen’s career stretches back to the early ’90s; he began as a painter, then moved on to experimental film in a Warholian vein before making his narrative feature debut with 2008’s “Hunger.” McQueen’s most ambitious project to date is arguably “Small Axe” (2020), an anthology of five films, ranging in length from just under one hour to just over two, all focusing on the West Indian immigrant experience in London at different points in the 20th century.

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