Tacita Dean Movies

  • 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
  • 2004
    Palast

    Palast

    Palast

    02004HD

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

    Palast
  • 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
  • 2004
    The Uncles

    The Uncles

    The Uncles

    02004HD

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

    The Uncles
  • 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
  • 1999
    Banewl

    Banewl

    Banewl

    01999HD

    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
  • 2023
    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    02023HD

    Geography Biography
  • 2001
    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    6.32001HD

    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
  • 2008
    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    02008HD

    Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

    Prisoner Pair
  • 2013
    JG

    JG

    JG

    4.752013HD

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

    JG
  • 2016
    Portraits

    Portraits

    Portraits

    02016HD

    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
  • 2011
    Edwin Parker

    Edwin Parker

    Edwin Parker

    02011HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    Edwin Parker
  • 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
  • 1996
    Disappearance at Sea

    Disappearance at Sea

    Disappearance at Sea

    61996HD

    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
  • 1994
    The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts)

    The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts)

    The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts)

    01994HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts)
  • 1999
    Bubble House

    Bubble House

    Bubble House

    01999HD

    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
  • 2006
    Kodak

    Kodak

    Kodak

    02006HD

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

    Kodak
  • 1970
    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting

    01970HD

    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...

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting