Tacita Dean Movies

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

A portrait of actor David Warner with hummingbirds.

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

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...

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...

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...

Donald Crowhurst disappeared at sea on the 1st of July, 1969. His boat Teignmouth Electron was found abandoned ten days later by the Royal Mail...

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

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...

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

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

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

A film by Tacita Dean

A film by Tacita Dean

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...

'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...

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

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

Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

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...