FILM is an 11-minute silent 35mm film projected onto a gigantic white
monolith standing 13 metres tall at the end of a darkened Turbine Hall.
It is the first work in The Unilever Series devoted to the moving image,
and celebrates the masterful techniques of analogue film-making as
opposed to digital. The work evokes the monumental mysterious black
monolith from the classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The film feels like a surreal visual poem, including images from the
natural world among others, with the epic wall of the Turbine Hall
showing through, in a montage of black and white, colour, and
hand-tinted film.
Tacita Dean is a British artist now based in Berlin, best known for her
use of film. Dean’s films act as portraits or depictions rather than
conventional cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or
subtle shifts in movement. Her static camera positions and long takes
allow events to unfold unhurriedly. Other works have attempted to
reconstruct events from memory, such as an infamous thwarted attempt to
circumnavigate the world.
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