Tacita Dean Movies

A film by Tacita Dean

A portrait of actor David Warner with hummingbirds.

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

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...

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

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

'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...

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

Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

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

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

The 16-minute colour film observes Hockney smoking five cigarettes and thinking about painting in his Los Angeles studio, surrounded by a series of...

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...

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...

A film by Tacita Dean

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

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...