Tacita Dean Movies

  • 1994
    Girl Stowaway

    Girl Stowaway

    Girl Stowaway

    01994HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    Girl Stowaway
  • 2006
    Kodak

    Kodak

    Kodak

    02006HD

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

    Kodak
  • 2026
    Sidney Felsen Decorates an Envelope

    Sidney Felsen Decorates an Envelope

    Sidney Felsen Decorates an Envelope

    02026HD

    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...

    Sidney Felsen Decorates an Envelope
  • 2023
    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    Geography Biography

    02023HD

    Geography Biography
  • 2015
    Event for a Stage

    Event for a Stage

    Event for a Stage

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    "'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...

    Event for a Stage
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1992
    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    The Story of Beard

    01992HD

    A film by Tacita Dean

    The Story of Beard
  • 2001
    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

    Fernsehturm

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    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

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    '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
  • 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
  • 2004
    Palast

    Palast

    Palast

    02004HD

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

    Palast
  • 2008
    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    Prisoner Pair

    02008HD

    Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

    Prisoner Pair
  • 2013
    JG

    JG

    JG

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

    JG
  • 2017
    Ear on a Worm

    Ear on a Worm

    Ear on a Worm

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

    Ear on a Worm
  • 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