Fiona Tan Movies
- 2018
Vertical Red
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With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting...
- 2018
Vertical Wide
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With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting...
- 2016
History's Future
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Losing his memory after a mugging, a man known only as 'MP' (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey - in search not only for his...
- 2016
Ascent
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Through a grey blanket of clouds, we barely discern the contours of Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces. 4,500 exceptional and diverse photographs...
- 2008
Island
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Island (2008) is a 12-minute black-and-white video that surveys the distinctive terrain of Gotland, an island off the eastern coast of Sweden....
- 2002
Downside Up
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‘…I lose my bearings. But after all, is that such a bad thing?’ - FT
- 2018
Vertical White
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With a static camera Tan films the dense night-time traffic in West Los Angeles from her temporary studio location at the Getty Center. Undercutting...
- 2007
A Lapse of Memory
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A confused old man, Henry, lives on his own in an old empty building that is reminiscent of a deserted palace. Henry hasn't been outside for years....
- 2022
Footsteps
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In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills,...
- 2007
Here Is Always Somewhere Else
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The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...
- 2020
Gray Glass
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- 2023
Dearest Fiona
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As a voice reads letters from a father to his daughter off camera, 20th century archival images from the Netherlands are shown. Fiona Tan touchingly...
- 1999
Facing Forward
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In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking....
- 1997
May You Live in Interesting Times
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Tan’s father is Chinese-Indonesian and her mother is Australian. She grew up in Australia and studied in Germany and the Netherlands. Her...
- 2012
Inventory
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- 2013
Nellie
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Transporting the viewer to a very different time and place, Nellie is inspired by the life of Cornelia van Rijn, Rembrandt's illegitimate daughter,...
- 2001
Saint Sebastian
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Saint Sebastian was filmed by Fiona Tan at the annual ‘Toshiya’ in Kyoto, a coming-of-age ceremony for women aged twenty in 2001. It was...
- 1998
Linnaeus’ Flower Clock
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A reflection on the passing of time.
- 2003
News from the Near Future
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Amsterdam-based photographer and video artist Fiona Tan (born 1966) has been a central figure on the contemporary art scene since the 1990s. In her...