Movies

  • 1995
    A Bag of Air

    A Bag of Air

    A Bag of Air

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    A film by Tacita Dean

    A Bag of Air
  • 1999
    Banewl

    Banewl

    Banewl

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    Banewl was filmed entirely within the two hour and forty minute period of the total eclipse of the sun on 11 August 1999, and takes its title from a...

    Banewl
  • 2006
    Noir et Blanc

    Noir et Blanc

    Noir et Blanc

    02006HD

    Noir et Blanc, a 16 mm black-and-white film also presented at the Guggenheim, literalizes this sense of reaching an endpoint: The...

    Noir et Blanc
  • 1999
    Bubble House

    Bubble House

    Bubble House

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    While documenting the decayed hull of the Teignmouth Electron, my companion and I drove up the other road on the hurricane coast of the small island...

    Bubble House
  • 2016
    Portraits

    Portraits

    Portraits

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    The 16-minute colour film observes Hockney smoking five cigarettes and thinking about painting in his Los Angeles studio, surrounded by a series of...

    Portraits
  • 2007
    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger

    02007HD

    Continuing her recent collection of film portraits, Tacita Dean’s Michael Hamburger is a moving portrayal of the poet and translator, a...

    Michael Hamburger
  • 2006
    Kodak

    Kodak

    Kodak

    02006HD

    Experimental documentary about the now closed Kodak factory in Chalon-sur-Saône where they made 16 mm film.

    Kodak
  • 2017
    Ear on a Worm

    Ear on a Worm

    Ear on a Worm

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    A bird tweets from a power line in Venice, California.

    Ear on a Worm
  • 2002
    Mario Merz

    Mario Merz

    Mario Merz

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    'Mario Merz' was made in San Gimignano in Tuscany, Italy where Dean was invited to a residency in summer 2002. Dean's film is a study of the ageing...

    Mario Merz
  • 2011
    Edwin Parker

    Edwin Parker

    Edwin Parker

    02011HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    Edwin Parker
  • 1994
    Girl Stowaway

    Girl Stowaway

    Girl Stowaway

    01994HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    Girl Stowaway
  • 1999
    Teignmouth Electron

    Teignmouth Electron

    Teignmouth Electron

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    Donald Crowhurst disappeared at sea on the 1st of July, 1969. His boat Teignmouth Electron was found abandoned ten days later by the Royal Mail...

    Teignmouth Electron
  • 2022
    Fata Morgana

    Fata Morgana

    Fata Morgana

    02022HD

    Recently, working on another project in Utah, Tacita Dean noticed that land in the distance was changing shape — as were the trucks moving...

    Fata Morgana
  • 2001
    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    6.52001HD

    Dean’s film comprises a forty-four minute static shot looking across the restaurant interior towards the curved wall of windows that allows...

    Fernsehturm
  • 2011
    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    02011HD

    Manhattan Mouse Museum takes a glimpse into the world of American Pop Art icon Claes Oldenburg as he tends to an assembly of small curios, objects,...

    Manhattan Mouse Museum
  • 2001
    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

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    A static and silent shot of a sunset off the western coast of Madagascar. Tacita Dean filmed the ‘green ray’, a legendary natural...

    The Green Ray
  • 1999
    Sound Mirrors

    Sound Mirrors

    Sound Mirrors

    51999HD

    Dean filmed huge concrete, curved structures built in Dungeness in the UK, which date back to the 1920s. They were constructed as a pre-radar sound...

    Sound Mirrors
  • 2013
    JG

    JG

    JG

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    "Tacita Dean’s JG is inspired by her correspondence with Ballard regarding connections between his short story 'The Voices of Time' (1960) and...

    JG
  • 2023
    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

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    Geography Biography
  • 2004
    Palast

    Palast

    Palast

    02004HD

    Footsteps, clocks chiming, female voices speaking in German and dusk birdsong.

    Palast