Tacita Dean Movies

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

A film by Tacita Dean

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

Two pears dissolve in a bottle of Schnapps.

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...

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...

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

A film by Tacita Dean

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,...

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

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...

A film by Tacita Dean

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

A film by Tacita Dean

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

A film by Tacita Dean

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

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

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...