Tacita Dean Movies

  • 2018
    His Picture In Little

    His Picture In Little

    His Picture In Little

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    A portrait of three actors of different generations who have all portrayed Hamlet: David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw.

    His Picture In Little
  • 2018
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    02018HD

    Dean’s work is characterized by a sense of history, time and place, light quality, and the essence of the film itself. In line with these...

    Antigone
  • 1996
    Disappearance at Sea

    Disappearance at Sea

    Disappearance at Sea

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    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...

    Disappearance at Sea
  • 2021
    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

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    Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...

    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
  • 2016
    Cinema Futures

    Cinema Futures

    Cinema Futures

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    Analog celluloid strips are disappearing. Is film dying, or just changing? Are the world's film archives on the brink of a dark age? Renowned...

    Cinema Futures
  • 2023
    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

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    Geography Biography
  • 2015
    Event for a Stage

    Event for a Stage

    Event for a Stage

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    "'Event for a Stage’ is a 16mm film I made in 2015 with the actor Stephen Dillane. I normally project the work as film inside galleries and...

    Event for a Stage
  • 2012
    Patience (After Sebald)

    Patience (After Sebald)

    Patience (After Sebald)

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    A richly textured essay film on landscape, art, history, life and loss, Patience (After Sebald) offers a unique exploration of the work of...

    Patience (After Sebald)
  • 2011
    Film

    Film

    Film

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    Tacita Dean took up the challenge of filling Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2011. Her response, entitled 'FILM', is a silent 35mm looped film...

    Film
  • 2021
    Promises: Through Congress

    Promises: Through Congress

    Promises: Through Congress

    102021HD

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

    Promises: Through Congress
  • 2007
    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else

    62007HD

    The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...

    Here Is Always Somewhere Else
  • 2011
    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    Manhattan Mouse Museum

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    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
  • 2004
    The Uncles

    The Uncles

    The Uncles

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    A filmed conversation between Winton Dean and Jonathan Balcon about their fathers Basil Dean (1888 –1978) and Michael Balcon (1896...

    The Uncles
  • 1995
    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle

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    A film by Tacita Dean

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle
  • 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
  • 2007
    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger

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

    Michael Hamburger
  • 1992
    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

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    A film by Tacita Dean

    The Story of Beard
  • 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
  • 2009
    Craneway Event

    Craneway Event

    Craneway Event

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

    Craneway Event
  • 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