"For me it was about being in this state of limbo. The space between the crossing: that particular state of not arriving, and leaving, and what that is. The bassists are all from different aspects or places of the diaspora-from Africa, from America, from the Caribbean-and here they all come together to investigate, to interpret or just feel that idea of being in this place or non-place, whatever you want to call it."
"London became a site of trauma, of the kind usually pushed to-or, more precisely, visited upon-the margins of empire. The radical solidarity this engendered, with class and racial lines redrawn around a shared experience of violence, was, McQueen argues in his intermittently quite powerful, frequently frustrating film, the Blitz's squandered promise."
"Blitz opens in the heat of the moment, on a street of terraced houses already engulfed in flames; when a fireman opens a hose the water bursts forth with such force that it keeps the viewer in a state of shock, mirroring the continual violence of the bombings and the resilience of those sheltering from it."
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