Tacita Dean Movies
- 2008
Prisoner Pair
Prisoner Pair02008HD
Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.
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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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- 2021
Paradise
Paradise02021HD
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...
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- 2004
Palast
Palast02004HD
Footsteps, clocks chiming, female voices speaking in German and dusk birdsong.
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- 1996
Disappearance at Sea
Disappearance at Sea5.51996HD
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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- 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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- 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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- 2006
Kodak
Kodak02006HD
Experimental documentary about the now closed Kodak factory in Chalon-sur-Saône where they made 16 mm film.
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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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- 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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- 2013
JG
JG4.82013HD
"Tacita Dean’s JG is inspired by her correspondence with Ballard regarding connections between his short story 'The Voices of Time' (1960) and...
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- 2026
Sidney Felsen Decorates an Envelope
Sidney Felsen Decorates an Envelope02026HD
Sidney Felsen, who passed away in 2024 at age 99, was a true Los Angeles institution. He co-founded Gemini G.E.L. alongside Stanley Grinstein in 1966...
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- 1992
The Story of Beard
The Story of Beard01992HD
A film by Tacita Dean
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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
A Bag of Air
A Bag of Air01995HD
A film by Tacita Dean
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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