Tacita Dean Movies
- 1999

Banewl
Banewl01999HD
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...
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- 2023

Geography Biography
Geography Biography02023HD
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- 2021

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art7.22021HD
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...
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- 2006

Noir et Blanc
Noir et Blanc02006HD
Noir et Blanc, a 16 mm black-and-white film also presented at the Guggenheim, literalizes this sense of reaching an endpoint: The...
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- 2018

His Picture In Little
His Picture In Little02018HD
A portrait of three actors of different generations who have all portrayed Hamlet: David Warner, Stephen Dillane and Ben Whishaw.
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- 2015

Event for a Stage
Event for a Stage02015HD
"'Event for a Stage’ is a 16mm film I made in 2015 with the actor Stephen Dillane. I normally project the work as film inside galleries and...
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- 2021

Promises: Through Congress
Promises: Through Congress102021HD
Promises: Through Congress is a collaboration between Julie Mehretu, electronic music composer Floating Points aka Sam Shepherd, and filmmaker Trevor...
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- 2007

Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Here Is Always Somewhere Else62007HD
The life and work of enigmatic Dutch/Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who in 1975 disappeared under mysterious circumstances at sea in the...
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- 1970

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting
One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting01970HD
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...
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- 2001

The Green Ray
The Green Ray6.32001HD
A static and silent shot of a sunset off the western coast of Madagascar. Tacita Dean filmed the ‘green ray’, a legendary natural...
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- 2009

Craneway Event
Craneway Event92009HD
Craneway Event marks the second collaboration between acclaimed Berlin-based, British artist Tacita Dean and the legendary, late choreographer Merce...
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- 1992

The Story of Beard
The Story of Beard01992HD
A film by Tacita Dean
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- 2011

Manhattan Mouse Museum
Manhattan Mouse Museum02011HD
Manhattan Mouse Museum takes a glimpse into the world of American Pop Art icon Claes Oldenburg as he tends to an assembly of small curios, objects,...
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- 2007

Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger02007HD
Continuing her recent collection of film portraits, Tacita Dean’s Michael Hamburger is a moving portrayal of the poet and translator, a...
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- 2017

Ear on a Worm
Ear on a Worm02017HD
A bird tweets from a power line in Venice, California.
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- 1995

How to Put a Boat in a Bottle
How to Put a Boat in a Bottle01995HD
A film by Tacita Dean
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- 1995

A Bag of Air
A Bag of Air01995HD
A film by Tacita Dean
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- 1999

From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed
From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed01999HD
From Columbus Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed, 1999, records a search for traces of Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Woodshed, 1970,...
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- 1994

The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts)
The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts)01994HD
A film by Tacita Dean
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- 1996

Disappearance at Sea
Disappearance at Sea61996HD
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...
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