Tacita Dean Movies

  • 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
  • 1999
    Teignmouth Electron

    Teignmouth Electron

    Teignmouth Electron

    01999HD

    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...

    Teignmouth Electron
  • 2001
    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    6.52001HD

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

    Fernsehturm
  • 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
    From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed

    From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed

    From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed

    01999HD

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

    From Columbus, Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed
  • 2013
    JG

    JG

    JG

    4.82013HD

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

    JG
  • 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)
  • 2011
    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    Manhattan Mouse Museum

    02011HD

    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,...

    Manhattan Mouse Museum
  • 2021
    Promises: Through Congress

    Promises: Through Congress

    Promises: Through Congress

    102021HD

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

    Promises: Through Congress
  • 2008
    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    02008HD

    Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

    Prisoner Pair
  • 2006
    Kodak

    Kodak

    Kodak

    02006HD

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

    Kodak
  • 2004
    Palast

    Palast

    Palast

    02004HD

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

    Palast
  • 1996
    Disappearance at Sea

    Disappearance at Sea

    Disappearance at Sea

    5.51996HD

    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...

    Disappearance at Sea
  • 1995
    A Bag of Air

    A Bag of Air

    A Bag of Air

    01995HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    A Bag of Air
  • 1992
    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    01992HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    The Story of Beard
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1995
    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle

    01995HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    How to Put a Boat in a Bottle
  • 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
  • 2009
    Craneway Event

    Craneway Event

    Craneway Event

    92009HD

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

    Craneway Event