In the early morning hours of June 14, 2017, a fire broke out in North Kensington’s Grenfell Tower, burning for 60 hours and killing over 70 people. Almost five years later, a Government Inquiry is only partially complete and recommendations are yet to be implemented. Government incompetence is blamed for both the fire and the lack of reform since. Steve McQueen, the award-winning filmmaker known for directing 12 Years A Slave, has taken it upon himself to remind the British people of the avoidable tragedy and the lives it took: his new and self-funded short film is titled Grenfell. On view at London’s Serpentine Gallery, this 24-minute, nearly silent aerial evaluation of the site six months after the fire is heartbreaking. Departing from the gallery, one passes walls that contain the 72 names of those killed, a haunting reminder of the inhumane treatment to which low-income citizens are subjected. —Lucy Horowitz