Tacita Dean Movies

  • 1970
    Paradise

    Paradise

    Paradise

    01970HD

    In the centre of the gallery is a pavilion housing the 35mm film Paradise (2021), the final work of the trilogy. It is the first time that Paradise...

    Paradise
  • 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

    01995HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle
  • 2001
    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    62001HD

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

    Fernsehturm
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2002
    Mario Merz

    Mario Merz

    Mario Merz

    02002HD

    '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
  • 2023
    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    02023HD

    Geography Biography
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 2004
    Palast

    Palast

    Palast

    02004HD

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

    Palast
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    Kodak

    Kodak

    Kodak

    02006HD

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

    Kodak
  • 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
  • 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