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
  • 2001
    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    The Green Ray

    6.32001HD

    A static and silent shot of a sunset off the western coast of Madagascar. Tacita Dean filmed the ‘green ray’, a legendary natural...

    The Green Ray
  • 1992
    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    01992HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    The Story of Beard
  • 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
  • 2017
    Ear on a Worm

    Ear on a Worm

    Ear on a Worm

    02017HD

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

    Ear on a Worm
  • 2008
    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    02008HD

    Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

    Prisoner Pair
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Portraits

    Portraits

    Portraits

    02016HD

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

    Portraits
  • 2007
    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger

    Michael Hamburger

    02007HD

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

    Michael Hamburger
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2011
    Edwin Parker

    Edwin Parker

    Edwin Parker

    02011HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    Edwin Parker
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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