"Deadpan" (1997) is a four-minute black and white short film directed by and starring McQueen showing a multitude of angles on a reenactment of a stunt from Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill, Jr.". "Frieze Magazine" noted his lack of shoelaces and inferred a multitude of depth and commentary on the prison system. Media Art noted that his use of black and white emulates 1920s film style without "a historicizing strategy or to reinterpret the origins of moving images." The film was exhibited on loop in the Museum of Modern Art's "Contemporary Galleries, 1980-Now" from 17 November 2011 to 17 February 2014.