Buster Keaton's most dangerous stunt, performed by a Turner Prize winner. The house always wins.
Deadpan is a four-minute installation film in which McQueen re-stages a death-defying Buster Keaton stunt. The side of a house is filmed toppling again and again from all angles onto an unflinching McQueen, who survives thanks to a carefully positioned window.
Direction
McQueen the director nearly kills McQueen the performer. Intentional.
Editing
Rapid-fire angles turn one stunt into structural rhythm.
Director
Steve McQueen
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