Tacita Dean Movies

A film by Tacita Dean

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...

Disappearance at Sea (1996) is a 16 mm colour film with sound shot on location at the lighthouse on St Abb’s Head in Berwick-upon-Tweed in...

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...

Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor...

50 ½ minute 16 mm continuous film loop of artists Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu in conversation. The idea for a film featuring Hurtado and...

Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

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

A film by Tacita Dean

A film by Tacita Dean

A film by Tacita Dean

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

A film by Tacita Dean

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...

From Columbus Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed, 1999, records a search for traces of Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970,...

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

Craneway Event marks the second collaboration between acclaimed Berlin-based, British artist Tacita Dean and the legendary, late choreographer Merce...

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

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

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