Check Out the Sexy Ad Oscar Winner Steve McQueen Shot for Burberry on 70mm Film

Oscar-winning Director Steve McQueen has only made three feature films. However, he has brought his incredible artistry to some 20 shorts, now including an intriguing ad for Burberry.

McQueen shot "Mr. Burberry" on 70mm film—the same kind of film you'd expect for an historical epic like Ben-Hur—which adds a strange sense of grandeur to the 3-minute commercial. It bears many of the trademarks you'd expect to see in a film by McQueen, like scenes flooded with cold blues and greens and brutally sexual subject matter.

Here are a couple of behind-the-scenes videos:

Big name Hollywood directors dipping their toes into commercial fare isn't anything new. Everyone from Martin Scorsese to Sofia Coppola to Baz Luhrmann have done so; Wes Anderson lent his talent to Prada for their 2013 campaign for Candy L’Eau, directing two "filmercials" staring Jason Schwartzman and Blue is the Warmest Color's Léa Seydoux.

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