Irish film "Hunger" to be screened March 8, 2013

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Still from 2008 Irish film "Hunger"

ALBANY, NY (02/13/2013)(readMedia)-- HUNGER (Ireland, 2008, 96 minutes, color, directed by Steve McQueen) will be shown on Friday, March 8, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute as part of its Classic Film Series, the screening is free and open to the public.

Video installation artist Steve McQueen adapts his art form for the big screen in this harrowing tale of Irish Republican political prisoners who commit to a 1981 hunger strike to protest inhumane prison conditions. J. Hoberman called it, "A compelling drama that is also a formalist triumph." Writing in the Washington Post, Ann Hornaday said, "McQueen has taken the raw materials of filmmaking and committed an act of great art." Michael Fassbender stars as Bobby Sands.

HUNGER is the fourth and final film in the continuation of a mini-series within the Classic Film Series entitled, The Future of Film. The selections for The Future of Film series are based on film critic J. Hoberman's list of global cinema's quintessential 21st century motion pictures. Hoberman offers his selections in his book Film After Film (2012), an exploration of the future of the film industry with the advent of new digital image-making technologies, globalization, and accelerated cultural change.

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.

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