Still from Hunger (2008), Steve McQueen. Running Time: 96 minutes.
Book tickets
The second part of Carceral Injustice: Imagining Abolition is a screening of Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008), which examines the limits of the human body as a site of political resistance. The film centres on the 66-day hunger strike of Irish political prisoner Bobby Sands at the Maze Prison in 1981.
Continuing Visible Justice’s interrogation of habeas corpus and the body as a site of both injury and resistance, the screening will be introduced by hunger striker Heba Muraisi and Francesca Nadin from Prisoners for Palestine. They will reflect on the connections between the Irish hunger strikes and the recent hunger strike by Palestine Action prisoners, and consider how these actions complicate the legal requirement to “produce the body” under habeas corpus.
This event is part of Visible Justice's ongoing residency, which examines shifting conceptions and sites of justice through urgent conversations around censorship, proscription, abolition, occupation, displacement, and gendered violence. Building on themes developed throughout the residency, the programme asks what it means to bear witness, how more embodied forms of justice might be imagined, and for whom the body is made visible or rendered legible.
Continuing Visible Justice’s interrogation of habeas corpus and the body as a site of both injury and resistance, the screening will be introduced by hunger striker Heba Muraisi and Francesca Nadin from Prisoners for Palestine. They will reflect on the connections between the Irish hunger strikes and the recent hunger strike by Palestine Action prisoners, and consider how these actions complicate the legal requirement to “produce the body” under habeas corpus.
This event is part of Visible Justice's ongoing residency, which examines shifting conceptions and sites of justice through urgent conversations around censorship, proscription, abolition, occupation, displacement, and gendered violence. Building on themes developed throughout the residency, the programme asks what it means to bear witness, how more embodied forms of justice might be imagined, and for whom the body is made visible or rendered legible.
Book tickets
Fri, 10 Jul 2026
Cinema 2
06:30 pm
Ticket information
- All tickets that do not require ID (full price, disabled, income support) can be printed at home or stored in email
- For aged-based concession tickets (under 25, student) please bring relevant ID to collect at the front desk before the event.
Access information
Cinema 2
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
for the following requirements:
- We have a removable seat to create a wheelchair allocated space, please contact to organise this prior to the date and time of the screening
- We have unassigned seating. If you require a specific seat, please reserve this in advance
- Free for visitors where ticket prices are a barrier, please email
Related event
Carceral Injustice: Imagining Abolition
Thu 9 Jul, 6:30pm
Talk
Join writers, artists and filmmakers Lola Olufemi, Sofia Kari, and Saeed Taji Farouky for an imaginative rethinking of the present justice system, countering the violence inherent in policing, prisons and punishment.
Members+ and all Patrons gain free entry to all cinema screenings, exhibitions, talks, and more.
Join today as a Member+ for £25/month.
